Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.