David Chase

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.

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.

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.

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

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.