Twitter user and writer @ForArya live-tweeted the Q&A, which was also attended by a number of local publications, in a thread that quickly went viral.
Benioff and Weiss reportedly described the production of the show as like a "10-year drunk party" and complained about "giving up" 10 years of their life. The pair expressed surprise that they were entrusted with the show with so little experience and described it as like an "expensive film school".
Benioff reportedly spoke about their meeting with series author George RR Martin where he questioned their "bona fides", saying "we didn't really have any" and "we don't know why he trusted us with his life's work".
Weiss joked how the in the early days, with no background in fantasy, they found writing dialogue awkward. "In every scene, we were three lines away from Monty Python and the Holy Grail," he said.
Benioff reportedly said they wanted to remove as many fantasy elements from the show as possible because "we didn't just want to appeal to that type of fan" but wanted to expand the fan base to "mothers, NFL players".
Asked whether they tried to "boil down" the major elements of the books they said they didn't as "the scope was too big", saying it was "about the scenes we were trying to depict and the show was about power".
At one point, discussing how they were very granular in details of individual shots but often lose sight of the big picture, they recalled how the mother of a baby featured in season one "was not happy because Dan just kept talking about a close-up of the baby's penis".
Users on Twitter were, understandably, not happy.
