Quotes About HBO

When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition in their network, and they value production value as much as we did, and that that would be a perfect place to do a show of this scope and this ambition.

When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

My beard is owned by HBO.

I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking in all these films from different eras and different styles has really given me a good vocabulary in how to talk about movies.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.

Because in this business, as you know, you don't get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that's what I do.

I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool.

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When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Netflix, despite the fact that they compete very aggressively with Prime Video on the Amazon side, they run everything on top of AWS and have for several years - same with Disney, Warner, Fox, HBO and Turner, they all run on AWS.

I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I've been doing this in one form or another since I was twenty-two doing documentaries for PBS and HBO.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.

A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to be lamented 'Chris Rock Show.' So it's surprising how much fun the character's film debut, 'Pootie Tang,' is.

It's pretty surreal to be doing a show on HBO with pals.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

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 an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.