The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe..

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong..

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

The right time is always right now..

Without a goal, you can’t score..

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk..

Free time is the enemy of progress.

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea..

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

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as yo….

That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but h….

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just….

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 t….

I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that..

For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make ….

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there..

A shared life is a great life..

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent l….

One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was….

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do..