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.

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

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

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.

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.