George R. R. Martin Quotes

With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

Saroj Kumar is a fictitious character who is free to think anything.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'

Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.

'Shoop' is whatever you want it to mean. You just shooping around. Just shoop!

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.