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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.
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.
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.
What do I predict with the HBO 'Game Change' movie? I expect my family and Sarah Palin to be nothing short of crucified.
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.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.
Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.
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.
I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.
I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
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.
We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.
Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.
HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.'
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.
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.
My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.
I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on an HBO series or something.
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.
I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
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!
I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.
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.
'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.
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.'
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def Jam Poetry' on HBO is just so sick to me.
Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.
Fighting on HBO and Showtime, people had to pay money to watch them and a lot of people who love boxing, they didn't have those channels.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.
At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost.
Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.
Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.
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.