Alex Graves
Alex Graves
Alexander "Alex" Gravesis an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
directed stretched ways
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.
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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.
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'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.