Alex Graves
Alex Graves
Alexander "Alex" Gravesis an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
writing fighting iceland
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.
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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.
schedule shot similar time tv
'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.
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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.
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I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.
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.
deleted rarely scene scripts unusual
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.'
funny hard pull similar
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.
director scene
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.'
For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
alien anyone good great planet pull work
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.
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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.
life
'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.
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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.