Miguel Sapochnik Quotes

United Kingdom, Film Director
1974

Miguel Sapochnik is an English film and television director and former storyboard artist of Argentine origin. He is best known as the director of the feature film Repo Men, and as a director for the HBO epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, for which he won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series at the 69th Directors Guild of America Awards.

Also known as Story Artist

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

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Music is my second love.

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- Love
- Second

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

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- Nothing
- Around
- Harder
Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

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I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.

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- Television
- Thing
- Between
I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.

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- Question
- Fight
- Studio
One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.

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I really, really liked shooting and doing the scene with Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage at the end of 'Winds of Winter,' when she gives him the Hand of the Queen. Because we shot it very simply. We felt like we had managed to do something that was visual but really was a very intimate scene between two people.

Miguel Sapochnik
- People
- Doing
- Winter

When I was coming onto 'Thrones,' I was looking for, 'What's the formula here?' There was a very David Lean kind of approach to it. It was traditional, in a way, and it was naturalistic in some respects, even though it was fantasy.

Miguel Sapochnik
- Looking
- Approach
- Coming