I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
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.
I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.
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.
I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
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.
From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
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.
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.
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
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.
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.
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television...
