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.

Alan Taylor

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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?'

Alan Taylor

loved doing think you

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.

Alan Taylor

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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.

Alan Taylor

going things love history

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

Alan Taylor

me drawing love past

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.

Alan Taylor

more filmmaking television way

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

Alan Taylor

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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.'

Alan Taylor

game care god people

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.

Alan Taylor

look cool me you

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.

Alan Taylor

someone never you time

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

Alan Taylor

game always green expensive

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.

Alan Taylor

value you money funny

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.

Alan Taylor

weird game country people

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

Alan Taylor

kid study play history

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

Alan Taylor

going film hero school

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.

Alan Taylor

shooting experience freedom different

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.

Alan Taylor

fast possible human freedom

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

Alan Taylor

future fun sometimes science

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.

Alan Taylor

you learning language speak

Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.

Alan Taylor

no-time except money time

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

Alan Taylor

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