There are no Asian movie stars

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

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

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.