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And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
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Birth: | 25th September, 1970 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter, Teacher, Television Producer |
David Benioff was born in New York City, New York. He is an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones. Additionally, he attended the University of California Irvine and Trinity College Dublin, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in the creative writing program. While working as a high school English teacher, he wrote the book The 25th Hour, and later adapted it into a screenplay, which was filmed starring Edward Norton and directed by Spike Lee. He then wrote a collection of short stories titled When the Nines Roll Over in 2004. He drafted a screenplay of the mythological epic Troy for which Warner Bros pictures paid him $2.5 million. In 2008, his second novel, City of Thieves was published.
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