The dialogue is obviously provocative ... and titillating, but I think it's also maybe a fresh voice.

(Carrie) loved examining people and relationships. She loved this idea of human contact and looking and observing, and Meredith is completely the opposite. She would like not to be touched. She would like not to be hugged.

I need money. You know money. I need to know what you know about money.

I'm overjoyed to be able to officially call HBO my creative home,

I kind of like how Blythe Danner has navigated her career. I feel like she's done such a smart thing. She did interesting movies and then she had a family and now, at this point in her life, she's back doing television. Like Blythe, I feel like TV is my trump card.

I liked the idea of this epidemic of not-so-young men still living at home.

Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Cuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world.

It's like she's had two caesarians and a lobotomy.

It's a hardship to be far away. My son's in school now, so my goal is to stay as close to home as possible, especially during the school year, and try not to work over summers.

It was the hardest experience I've had in a really, really, really long time.