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'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Life My Life Done
More Than Anything
Nova
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I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Emmy
Wins
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For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Game Of Thrones
Immediately
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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 / Film Director
Game Of Thrones
Pull
Similar
West Wing
Wing
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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 / Film Director
Time Focus Game
Game Of Thrones
Schedule
Similar
Tv Show
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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 / Film Director
Right Questions
Ending
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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 / Film Director
Different Things
Directed
Stretched
West Wing
Wing
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The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Men
Children
Struggle
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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 / Film Director
Game Of Thrones
Oblique
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When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Doe
Thinking
Writing
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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 / Film Director
Down To Earth
Great Work
Work Good Great
Alien
Game Of Thrones
Pull
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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 / Film Director
Hey
Locked
Scripts
Unusual
Deleted
Game Of Thrones
Rarely
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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 / Film Director
Intimidating
Bouncing
Game Of Thrones
Hardest Part
Walls
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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 / Film Director
Tv Shows
Tv
Directing
Episode
Figure
Putting
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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 / Film Director
Episodes
Advance
Game Of Thrones
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You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Hell
Littles
Tents
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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 / Film Director
Scale
Game Of Thrones
George
Narratives
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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 / Film Director
Sports
Comedy
Film
Frustrated
Night
Passion
Love Sports Movies
Director
Broad
Career
Student
Earlier
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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 / Film Director
Assuming
Standing
Money Great Enough
Enough Money
Maneuver
Pilot
Properly
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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 / Film Director
Aaron
Best Experience Me
Rare
Thomas
West Wing
Wing
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And one of the things that's interesting about how they're doing the show is that the audience almost knows more than the characters do in some of these scenes, and the extent of that is unique. So it's grown into a different show in a way. It's sort of grown into a different experience watching it.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Character
Different Experiences
Unique
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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 / Film Director
Agnostic
Cancer
Grounded
Lucky
Proof
Tough
Diagnosed
Experiences
Rob
Hired
Near
Pilot
Scientific
Steve
Surgeon
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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 / Film Director
Bored
Nice People
Steady
Waiting
Game Of Thrones
Handed
Steady Work
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Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.
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Foolish
Mind
Psychological
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Obviously the highest pressure scene, I guess it might've been a tie - what was the bigger death, Tyrion with Shae, Tyrion wth Twyin, and then Joffrey were all scenes where I wanted to deliver what was in the script married to what fans will be expecting, and it was a lot of pressure and I'm really glad it's over.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Fans
Might
Ties
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There weren't any deleted scenes, it was just a matter of tightening stuff. I didn't have any deleted scenes in what I did as far as I know. 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."
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Games
Needs
Thrones
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No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion that spirals into the fight was such a cool scene. I knew I was gonna film it in Iceland and I did a lot of - I really scouted and climbed around Iceland to find those locations and I just couldn't wait to do that.
Alex Graves / Film Director
Fighting
Iceland
Writing
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Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"
Alex Graves / Film Director
Character
Talking
Years
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