David Chase Quotes
-
Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?
→ -
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.
→ -
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 think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
→ -
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.
→ -
People get so tired of the '60s.
→ -
James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'
→ -
Hope comes in many forms.
→ -
Cancer don't respect nothing.
→ -
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.
→ -
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
→ -
But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended
→ -
When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.
→ -
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
→ -
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
→ -
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
→ -
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.
→ -
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
→ -
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
→ -
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
→ -
The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.
→ -
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
→ -
When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
→ -
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.
→ -
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
→ -
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
→ -
I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
→
Related Authors
-
Lorraine Bracco Film actress -
Michael Imperioli Actor -
Aida Turturro Actress -
Dominic Chianese Film actor -
Robert Iler Actor -
Mitchell Burgess Writer -
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Actress -
Steven Van Zandt Musician -
Bella Heathcote Film actress -
David Simon Author -
Brad Grey Film producer -
Frank Vincent Actor -
Jamie Lynn Sigler Actress -
Terence Winter Writer -
Matthew Weiner Director -
James Gandolfini Actor -
Drea de Matteo Actress -
Steve Schirripa Actor -
Joe Pantoliano Film actor -
Edie Falco Film actress