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'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.
~ Alex Graves
Focus
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'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.
~ Alex Graves
Anyone
Before
Both
Done
Game
Game Of Thrones
George
Know
Large
Large-Scale
Martin
Narratives
Scale
Show
Story
Terms
Wrote
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'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.
~ Alex Graves
About
Agnostic
Been
Cancer
Cool
Death
Diagnosed
Die
Enough
Experiences
Focus
Grounded
Happens
Hired
Just
Lucky
Mind
Near
Pilot
Proof
Read
Really
Rob
Scientific
She
Steve
Surgeon
Tough
You
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'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
~ Alex Graves
Anything
Done
Ever
Everybody
Life
More
More Than Anything
My Life
Nova
Than
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Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
~ Alex Graves
Ask
Beginning
Death
Either
Ending
Incredible
More
Often
Questions
Right
Right Questions
Story
Than
You
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Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
~ Alex Graves
Different
Different Things
Different Ways
Directed
Director
Lot
Really
Stretched
Things
Ways
West
West Wing
Wing
Wings
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For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
~ Alex Graves
About
Characters
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Game Of Thrones
Immediately
Realized
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
~ Alex Graves
Assuming
Enough
Enough Money
Great
Ground
Just
Keep
Make
Making
Matter
Money
Pilot
Properly
Someone
Something
Standing
Studio
System
Talent
Trying
Until
You
Your
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I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.
~ Alex Graves
Feel
Get
Guy
I Feel
I Feel Like
Like
Midwest
Never
Past
Seem
Stupid
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I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.
~ Alex Graves
Been
Bored
Everything
Game
Game Of Thrones
Getting
Handed
Hollywood
Just
Know
Like
Making
Me
Movies
Nice
Nice People
People
Really
Steady
Steady Work
Television
Then
Waiting
Work
Would
Would-Be
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I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
~ Alex Graves
Am
Broad
Career
Comedy
Director
Doing
Earlier
Film
Filmmaker
Frustrated
Love
Movies
Night
Part
Passion
Sports
Student
Stumbled
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I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
~ Alex Graves
Anything
Could
Emmy
Make
Sure
Try
Wins
Would
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It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
~ Alex Graves
Back
Because
Funny
Game
Game Of Thrones
Hard
Off
Pull
Similar
Some
Then
Very
Ways
West
West Wing
Wing
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It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'
~ Alex Graves
Because
Game
Game Of Thrones
Hey
Locked
Need
Pretty
Rarely
Reason
Say
Scene
Scripts
Unusual
Very
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Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
~ Alex Graves
Directing
Doing
Episode
Figure
Going
Most
Next
Out
Putting
Shows
Together
Trying
TV
TV Shows
While
Writing
You
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My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.
~ Alex Graves
Aaron
Back
Best
Could
Environment
Every
Experience
Giving
I Think
John
Keeping
Least
Me
Now
Off
Pretty
Rare
Script
Studio
Think
Thomas
Walked
Week
Were
West
West Wing
Where
Wing
Young
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No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.
~ Alex Graves
Advance
Director
Episodes
Game
Game Of Thrones
Going
Important
Knowing
Point
Reading
Which
Without
Written
You
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The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.
~ Alex Graves
Actually
Bouncing
Game
Game Of Thrones
Getting
Hardest
Hardest Part
Incredible
Intimidating
Miss
Much
Off
Part
Some
Talent
Them
Very
Walls
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There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones.'
~ Alex Graves
Always
Another
Director
Game
Game Of Thrones
How
Oblique
Pressure
Really
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Transition
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You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.
~ Alex Graves
Alien
Anyone
Down
Down To Earth
Earth
Game
Game Of Thrones
Gets
Good
Great
Great Work
Just
Mean
Planet
Pull
Show
Them
Want
Work
You
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