Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.""Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army.""That's SO not the point!

If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.