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.

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.