David Benioff
David Benioff
David Benioffis an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and director. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 September 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
dungeon geek huge master
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
writing down-and way
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.
winning secret neglect
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
hero register knows
Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?
doe belief easier
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.
character passion men
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
winning epic evil
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
You're a writer. Make it up.
home past eggs
That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!
greatness two world
I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
fighting different needs
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
beautiful powerful distance
The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...
dirty book adventure
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.
people making-love world
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.