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David Benioff Biography

David Benioff[pronunciation?] (born David Friedman; September 25, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer and writer, and novelist. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones.

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I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

Dialogue, Drawn, Thinking, Way, Writing

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Deadline, Movies, People, Suggestion, Suggestions, Waiting

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Becomes, Dies, Hero, Realise, Realising, Terrifying

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

Make Or Break, Break, Episodes, Make, Episode

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.

Backs, Hollywood, Nfl, Running, Screenwriters, Tend

You're a writer. Make it up.

Writer, Make

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

Giving, Happens, Moment, Moments, Nostalgia, Thanks

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Lonliest, Making, Making Love, People, Sound

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

Cutting, Difficult Choices, Adaptation, Requires, Screenwriter, Cuts

I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that his wish was carried out. Piter commanded far more affection and loyalty from me than the nation as a whole. But that night, running across the unplowed fields of winter wheat, with the Fascist invaders behind us and the dark Russian woods before us, I felt a surge of pure love for my country. We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

Allowed, Country, Fascist, Loyalty, Running, Wish

'Breaking Bad. ' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Bad, Breaking, Fiction, Narrative, Ten, Years

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

Neglect, Secret, Winning, Woman

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

Down, Down And, Point, Way, Writing

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Editors, Needs, Fiction, Stranger, Truth

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

Hero, Register, Daft, Perhaps, Courage

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Natural, Teacher

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

Passion, Character, Men, Asleep, Irritating, Spite

That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice. " "Tone of. . . . I'm asking you a question!

Asking, Eggs, Fifty, Germans, Home, Past

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Knows, Make, Notes, Pianist, Trained, Wells

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

War, Eye, Men, Mouth, Eyes

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