David Chase famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Cheer #People #Smoking
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
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
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
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
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 #Self #Artistic
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
I was so besotted with '8Â½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
-- David Chase

#Cameras #Firsts #Tvs
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
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
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
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
-- David Chase

#Home #Sound #Way
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
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
-- David Chase

#People #Needs #Degradation
People get so tired of the '60s.
-- David Chase

#Tired #People
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
Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.
-- David Chase

#Psychology #Soul #Addresses
Hope comes in many forms.
-- David Chase

#Sopranos #Form
Cancer don't respect nothing.
-- David Chase

#Cancer #Sopranos
I think people are intolerant of artists.
-- David Chase

#Artist #Thinking #People
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
-- David Chase

#People #Hollywood #Made
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
-- David Chase

#Hbo #Done #Want
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
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
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
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
-- David Chase

#Numbers #Fans #Gangsters
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
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

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