Alan Taylor

Director

American television and film director known for The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones.

Quotes by Alan Taylor

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.
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My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.
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I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.
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I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
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