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In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service. -- Reed Hastings
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall. -- Walter Hill
When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special. -- Gabriel Iglesias
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties. -- Harry Shearer
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films. -- Bruce Beresford
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. -- Aaron Sorkin
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. -- Charles S. Dutton
I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end. -- Mitch Hedberg
It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me. -- Daniel Tosh
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them. -- Emilia Clarke
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. -- Richard Russo
I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing. -- Gil Gerard
A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video. -- Joe Dante
The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. -- David Cronenberg
I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s. -- Sarah Paulson
I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready. -- Albert Finney
Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground. -- Nestor Carbonell
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. -- Aaron Sorkin
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out. -- Monica Lewinsky
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent. -- Peter Dinklage
I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy. -- Brian Lamb
Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy. -- Nick Denton
I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet! -- Sophia Bush
I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. -- Eliza Coupe
The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena. -- Andre Ward
I have nothing but respect for HBO. -- James Gandolfini
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.' -- David Mitchell
HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time. -- Stephen Moyer
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3. -- Chris Lilley
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. -- Gloria Steinem
Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate. -- Casey Neistat
I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix. -- Maria Thayer
There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime. -- Aaron Paul
I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO. -- Reed Hastings
I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard. -- John Leguizamo
It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States. -- Jan Zaveck
I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO. -- Jeremy Piven
My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there. -- Judd Apatow
HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes. -- Suzanne Fields
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture. -- Marina Abramovic
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. -- Peter Dinklage
HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice. -- Jeremy Piven
HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can. -- Tom Snyder
I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either. -- David Cross
I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that. -- Sandra Oh
I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West. -- Alex Trebek
As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up. -- Tim DeKay
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show. -- Chris Lilley
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey. -- Allison Williams
HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.' -- Mark Lawrenson
I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies. -- Amanda McBroom
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website. -- George Carlin
I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece. -- Donal Logue
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. -- Todd Haynes
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.' -- Allison Williams
I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that! -- Gabriel Iglesias
'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it. -- George R. R. Martin
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies. -- David Chase
I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees. -- Robert Klein
I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly. -- Stephen Daldry
HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers. -- Michael Mann
I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada. -- Bruce McCulloch
Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh. -- Dick Van Dyke
I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever. -- Rachel Nichols
I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president." -- Bill Maher
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' -- Martin Scorsese
I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta. -- Lisa Cholodenko
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.' -- Alan Zweibel
I love HBO and Showtime, especially Showtime. I'm a huge 'Dexter' fan, and I love 'Weeds.' That would be cool to do a recurring role on a show like that. -- Aly Michalka
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall. -- Walter Mosley
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one. -- Jonathan Nolan
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.' -- Walter Mosley
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
I forget sometimes that Im 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. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV. -- Patrick J. Adams
I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go -- Dan Dierdorf
I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in. -- Dominic Purcell
I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on. -- Oren Peli
Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together. -- Greg Mottola
Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next. -- James Goss
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