David Chase quotes
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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 ChaseSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended”
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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 ChaseSource : "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.
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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.”
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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 ChaseSource : "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.
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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 ChaseSource : "David Chase's Teenage Dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.
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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 ChaseSource : "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.
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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 ChaseSource : "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.
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“I was so besotted with '8½' 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.”
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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 ChaseSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.”
-- David ChaseSource : 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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“I think people are intolerant of artists.”
-- David ChaseSource : "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 ChaseSource : "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.
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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 ChaseSource : "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.
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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 ChaseSource : "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.
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