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.

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

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

Hope comes in many forms.

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

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.'

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.