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 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.

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.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

Eat the right food at the right time for the right purpose.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.