Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?