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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

Freedom, Experience, Before

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

Live, Parents, Special

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

Movies, Idea, Actually

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.
Tony Kushner

Work, Long, Book

The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.
Jason Aldean

Wife, Everything, Down

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
Aaron Sorkin

Business, Nice, Difference

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

Business, Happy, Nice

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

Good, Famous, Help

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
David Mitchell

Love, Actually, Wire

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

Good, Movies, Why

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

Service, Aggressive

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
Reed Hastings

Great, Watch, Shows

HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.
Stephen Moyer

Time, Spend, Fantastic

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

Love, Tv, Series

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.
Penny Marshall

Tell, Rather, Movie

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.
Suzanne Fields

Small, Stuff, Seen

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

War, Another, Talk

I have nothing but respect for HBO.
James Gandolfini

Respect, Nothing

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.
James Purefoy

Few, Tv, Production

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 really should be.
James Purefoy

Best, Saying, Understand

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Bruce Beresford

Quite, Seem, Films

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

Movies, Off, Internet

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

Long, Try, Start

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

Live, Show, Film

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
David Cross

Either, Asked, Pop

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.
Sandra Oh

Great, Wanted, Whatever

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

Family, Playing, Golf

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

Work, Home, Enough

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.
Adrian Grenier

Wife, Kids, Show

Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
Brian Bosworth

Today, America, Big

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