Benioff and Weiss described what the show is fundamentally about in one sentence: «The ways the personal can influence the polit…

Benioff and Weiss described what the show is fundamentally about in one sentence: «The ways the personal can influence the political, and how the motivations of people in power are driven by very human, understandable motives like revenge and love.» George R.R. Martin on what the story has always been: «I started writing this in 1991. I was living with these characters and this world for 16 years before we even started working on the show. They’re pretty fixed in my mind. I’m just still writing the story I set out to write in the early 1990s.» Benioff on Ned Stark and what the show established from the beginning: «Being the most honorable man in the room means you’re the most vulnerable man in the room. An honorable man is a predictable man, and predictability is weakness in war and politics.» Peter Dinklage on what people missed about the show: «Yeah, it was called Game of Thrones, but the whole dialogue when people would approach me on the street was, ‘Who’s going to be on the throne?’ I don’t know why that was their takeaway, because the show really was more than that.» Series: Game of Thrones (2011)