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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.