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

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.'

People get so tired of the '60s.

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

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.

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