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.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

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.

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

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.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

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.