Quotes by Alan Taylor - Page 1

I have this thing for anything Italian.
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Italian
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I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.
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Stamp
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I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.
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Drawing
Thrill
Cultures
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Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
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Science Fiction
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I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.
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Staging
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When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.
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Film School
David
David Lynch
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I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
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Trains
Study History
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I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.
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Aspect
Sensible
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Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.
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No Time
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When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
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Rush
Whatsoever
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On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.
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Bloody
Expensive
Game Of Thrones
Green Screen
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I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.
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Foot
Professor
Sold
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I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really screwed up.
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Screwed
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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.
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Compulsion
Chase
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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.
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Funny Thing
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On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'
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Croatia
Lunchtime
Shooting
Game Of Thrones
Photos
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There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
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Cinematic
Filmmaking
Guided
Medium
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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.
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Absolute Freedom
Shooting
Absolute
Marvel
Post
Wrenching
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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.
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Fulfilling
Surprise
Work Movies Always
Drawn
Wound
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It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.
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Film
Film School
Path
Heroes
Hal
Lee
Professor
Spike Lee
Studying
Tried
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There's a very devoted fan base that really loved 'T1' and 'T2' and felt burned by 'T3' and 'T4,' so when we said, 'We're going to do it again!' the reaction was, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa - what do you think you're doing?'
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Burned
Devoted
Base
Fan Base
Reaction
Whoa
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I've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for the director's contribution in a way that mainstream television doesn't really reflect, I don't think.
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Contribution
Hbo
Mainstream
Spoiled
Independent Movies
Institution
Reflect
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Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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Awake
Lying
Nuclear
Bad Thing
Good Thing
Infuse
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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.
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Established
Effectively
Episode
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Coming off 'Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward as a director in TV and get more involved in the process. After having those two great experiences, doing regular episodic TV wouldn't be quite the thrill.
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Mad Men
Sopranos
Spoiled
Thrill
Creatively
Episodic
Move Forward
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'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I'm naturally drawn to.
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Love Done World
Respond
Drawn
Game Of Thrones
Love Game World
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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.
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Film School
Finishing
Participating
Scorsese
Collapsing
Exactly What
Jim
Lee
Spike
Spike Lee
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The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.
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Iceland
Contents
Game Of Thrones
Guerilla
Operation
Thor
Weird Thing
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There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me an immersive 360 movie where you move from environment to environment and can look in any direction you want while you're experiencing it. Which is cool - but it kills directing, as far as I'm concerned.
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Filmmaking
Cool Me Look
Directing
Evolving
Cool Look Me
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