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HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.