Movie people think things are movies, and authors think things should be movies because, up until recently, movies have been the jewel in the crown. But, that seems to be changing.

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology