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JB: Does adapting the story for the screen make you see it in different ways?
Martin: (long pause) Well you have to think about different issues. Thankfully most of its been done by Benioff and Weiss. They're the ones who face the challenge of adapting it. The books were written, starting in the early 90s, and almost as a reaction to my 10 years in film. My scripts were repeatedly–all my first drafts anyway–were long and too expensive. I was always having to deal with the fact that on the budgets we had we couldn't possibly produce everything I put in the scripts. So I would combine characters, delete scenes, cut down the battles and so on, but I preferred my first drafts which had so much more good stuff in them before I have to start taking the practicalities of budgets and production into account.
So I write the books, limited only by imagination. Even David and Dan face the challenge of how they can possibly do this on a budget within the shooting schedule. All although we have a generous budget for a television show, it's still a television budget. It's not even close to what the feature budget would be, but on the other hand we have considerably more time.
