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I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.


Alex Graves  Alex Graves
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Alexander John Graves (born July 23, 1965) is an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter.

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'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.

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 Tags: Death Focus Cool Mind Die Tough
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Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

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 Tags: Together Writing Trying Doing You
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'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.

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 Tags: Time Focus Game Schedule Kind More
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The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.

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 Tags: Talent Game You Walls Incredible
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I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.

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 Tags: Work Waiting People Me Game Know
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Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

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 Tags: Wings Director Different Things West
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No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

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I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

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 Tags: Love Sports Passion Night Doing
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