Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that has that much mass appeal what it is? What is it that makes kids in China want to see that movie [ 'Avatar'] and makes my dad want to see that movie.

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

Free time is the enemy of progress

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all