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.

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.

Cancer don't respect nothing.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

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.