David Chase Quotes

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• It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

  David Chase

  Writing, Character, Interesting

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• I think that the difference between The Sopranos and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

  David Chase

  Drama, Thinking, Doctors

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

  David Chase

  Choices, Important, Distraction

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• You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

  David Chase

  Self, Interesting, Kind

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• When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

  David Chase

  Mafia, Ridiculous, Sopranos

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

  David Chase

  Stupid, Fall, Laughing

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• 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.

  David Chase

  Film, Tempted, Fascinated

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• People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

  David Chase

  Hate, People, Television

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• Hope comes in many forms.

  David Chase

  Sopranos, Form

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• 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.

  David Chase

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

  David Chase

  Editors, Trying, Sometimes

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• I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

  David Chase

  Thinking, Artistic Life, Self

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

  David Chase

  Art, Hands, People

  "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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

  David Chase

  Together, Sopranos, Film

  "David Chase's Teenage Dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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• The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.

  David Chase

  Mother, Secret, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'

  David Chase

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

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• I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.

  David Chase

  Lying, Talking, Imagine

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

  David Chase

  Psychology, Soul, Addresses

  David Chase, Carlo De Vito (2009). “The Sopranos: The Classic Quotes: 100 Unforgettable Bits of Wisdom&Humor From Americas Favorite Families”, Cider Mill Press

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• But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

  David Chase

  Cheer, People, Smoking

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• When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

  David Chase

  Cousin, Kids, Thinking

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

  David Chase

  Writing, Choices, Important

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• I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

  David Chase

  Numbers, Fans, Gangster Movie

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• Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

  David Chase

  People, Cameras, Television

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• 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.

  David Chase

  Thinking, Connections, Add

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I think people are intolerant of artists.

  David Chase

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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