Top 276 Hbo Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.
HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.'
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
I remember very clearly when my dad first subscribed to HBO - 'Fraggle Rock' was a gamechanger.
I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.
I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.
I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.
I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.
At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost.
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that!
HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.
I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.
I am an unabashed HBO fan. This is why being on 'Silicon Valley' is kind of like a dream.
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."
I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing.
HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.
I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.
Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
I've been an actor for 30 years. I'm not going to run from a great theater production to do two days on an HBO series or something.
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.
I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly.
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
It’s the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they’ve been good to me.
My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.
I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.
As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
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.
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.
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.
A lot of people assumed for all those years that I was the official announcer for HBO because I had done almost all their fights. I worked on all of them independently.
We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.
After my first 'One Night Stand' on HBO, I lost my focus. I was mad at the world. I would have meetings with directors and agents and cuss them out. I was a hothead.
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
What do I predict with the HBO 'Game Change' movie? I expect my family and Sarah Palin to be nothing short of crucified.
As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.
Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.
My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.
