Words matter. These are the best David Chase Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
I’ve said this a million times. But I’ve always wanted to do movies.
I said it’s a cold universe and I don’t mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it’s cold. It’s really cold and we don’t know what’s up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there’s a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
Your father tells you a story when you’re a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they’re telling you about that you’ve never seen, and you’re agape. You just can’t believe that things can happen like that – but it’s just so direct.
I’m the number-one fan of gangster movies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think people are intolerant of artists.
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.
People get so tired of the ’60s.
Once the subject matter of rock n’ roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, ‘Oh, that’s what they’re doing. That’s kind of – that’s art.’
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.
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.
