Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.