It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

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

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

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.