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.

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

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.