David Chase

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.

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.

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.