I think that the difference between ‘The Sopranos’ and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren’t about the writer himself. David Chase Read Quote
I was so besotted with ‘8½’ that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I’d ever really seen Italians on screen. David Chase Read Quote
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner. David Chase Read Quote
I have a huge editor in my head who’s always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out. David Chase Read Quote
When I was doing ‘The Sopranos’, I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it. David Chase Read Quote
I really like comedy. There’s always a choice, when you’re writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. David Chase Read Quote
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They’ve seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don’t have time or the money for therapy. David Chase Read Quote
I said it’s a cold universe and I don’t mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it’s cold. It’s really cold and we don’t know what’s up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there’s a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness? David Chase Read Quote
People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It’s nothing about the medium itself. David Chase Read Quote
