Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

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.

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

No relationship comes with a guarantee, but I’d rather fail with you than succeed with anyone else.

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!

We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.