Alan Taylor

“On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.”

“I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.”

“Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.”

“In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.”

“The Marvel experience was particularly wrenching because I was sort of given absolute freedom while we were shooting, and then in post, it turned into a different movie.”

“There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.”

“My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.”

“The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.”

“I have this thing for anything Italian.”