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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.