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