Ashley Thomas Quotes

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

I have a real passion for anything medieval, which is why I love the drama series 'Game Of Thrones.'

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

'Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.

I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.

I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died.

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don’t want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We’re hot.

The setting of 'Dragon Ball' has a sort of Chinese feel to it, but it's not necessarily limited to China. For the time period as well, exactly when it takes place is indeterminate.

Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.

I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.