quotes about Hbo
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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 -
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 -
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 WilliamsSource : "A Racy Big Break for Brian Williams' Daughter" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2012.
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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 -
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 was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.
-- Ben Kenney -
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 LambSource : "Lamb looks back on C-SPAN" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 22, 2012.
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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 -
Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.
-- Charlize Theron -
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 LilleySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
-- Chris Lilley -
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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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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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 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 CoupeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.
-- Gabriel Iglesias -
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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 -
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
-- Harry Shearer -
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 -
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I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that Ive spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.
-- Jeremy Piven -
HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.
-- Jeremy Piven -
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 -
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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.Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.
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I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.
-- Judd Apatow -
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 -
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 -
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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 PeliSource : "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.
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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. AdamsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
-- Peter Dinklage -
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 -
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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'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
-- Reed Hastings -
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
-- Reed Hastings -
I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.
-- Ricardo Mayorga -
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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.
-- Richard Russo -
I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.
-- Sandra Oh -
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 remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.
-- Scott Raab -
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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 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 DaldrySource : "Stephen Daldry Wants to Adapt Michael Chabon’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY as 8-Part HBO Miniseries" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. December 11, 2011.
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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 DeKaySource : "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
-- Walter Hill -
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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 -
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.
-- William Gibson -
The second disk was taped at our all-night anniversary show. And some of those sets are taped at like 4:30 or 5 in the morning, when people are a little groggy and not doing what they would do if they knew it was being recorded. That said, that disk has an entirely different flavor. It's more experimental. It has more of the newcomers on it. It has people doing stuff that you won't see on Comedy Central or HBO specials.
-- B. J. PorterSource : Source: www.dead-frog.com
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Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ability to connect with audiences is truly remarkable. HBO will be able to give this gifted performer the broadest, most unrestricted showcase for his talent, and we're delighted to welcome him to the network.
-- Chris Albrecht -
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I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."
-- Colin CallenderSource : Source: deadline.com
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I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.
-- Denis O'HareSource : "Denis O'Hare Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.
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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 MottolaSource : Source: collider.com
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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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It's my pleasure and honor to be here fighting on HBO and in the United States.
-- Jan Zaveck -
I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.
-- Maria Thayer -
I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.
-- Ben SchwartzSource : Source: collider.com
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
-- Bruce Beresford -
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It is definitely a hard show [True Blood] to jump into the middle of, but luckily we have things like HBO Go now. It's not like you've missed it and now you're stuck. And I think once guys give it a shot - and you'll be able to speak to this better than I will - there's a lot of stuff that can be interesting to guys. There's a lot of action. Plenty of people are getting their heads chopped off.
-- Deborah Ann WollSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.
-- Simon HelbergSource : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
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HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
-- Tom Snyder -
The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.
-- Jim Lampley -
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To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.
-- John Sentamu