David Benioff
David Benioff
David Benioffis an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and director. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 September 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking accomplishment long
Showrunner I admire: Weiss: "All friendship bias duly acknowledged: Rob McElhenney and the guys at 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' have been doing their show for longer than any live action comedy. To make something that consistently great for that long, and to keep it fresh ... I think that's a tremendous accomplishment.
sleep insomnia skulls
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
running nfl pressure
Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
beautiful children night
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.
editors might needs
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
make-or-break break episodes
Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.
winning secret neglect
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
book character challenges
The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.
writing character luxury
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
fighting different needs
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
people waiting suggestions
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
growing-up thinking goal
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
people making-love world
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
dirty book adventure
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.