'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.

'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.

It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.