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

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.