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.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

It's America calling the shots in everything

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.