The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

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.

God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.

The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.