39 Quotes by Alan Taylor

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.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

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.

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

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?'

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.

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

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.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.