Top 17 Miguel Sapochnik Quotes

When you’re younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

I try to approach all episodic work the same. No matter the content. I look for a dramatic or emotional spine to the story I’m telling, something that stands out to me thematically about the episode and its relationship to the rest of the season/series.

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.

I have a tendency to feel a bit embarrassed when approached, but it’s such a thrill to know that you did something that people enjoyed so much. It’s an even bigger thrill when they talk to you about ideas that you worked so hard to get in there, and they single them out as reasons they enjoyed it so much.

In a nutshell, directing ‘The Gift’ was all about understanding how the complex machine that is ‘Game of Thrones’ works.

Whatever project I sign up for, I try to familiarize myself with the material as much as possible before I start.

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.

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.

Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the new.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

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.

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn’t happen.

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn’t been forced to look for work in TV, I’d never have gotten to work on ‘Game of Thrones.’

I must admit, I don’t try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don’t really know how to think another way.

Each creative choice you make has ‘x’ many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have ‘y’ many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.