Quotes by David Chase - Page 1

Hope comes in many forms.
David Chase / Writer
Form
Sopranos
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Cancer don't respect nothing.
David Chase / Writer
Cancer
Sopranos
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People get so tired of the '60s.
David Chase / Writer
People
Tired
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I think people are intolerant of artists.
David Chase / Writer
Artist
People
Thinking
People Think I Think
Intolerant
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I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
David Chase / Writer
Fans
Gangster Movie
Numbers
Gangster
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Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.
David Chase / Writer
Addresses
Psychology
Soul
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I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
David Chase / Writer
Movies
Said
Wanted
Times
Million
Million Times
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You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
David Chase / Writer
Interesting
Kind
Self
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But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended
David Chase / Writer
Cheer
People
Smoking
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When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
David Chase / Writer
Sopranos
Music Together Doing
Favorite Part
Putting
The Sopranos
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When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
David Chase / Writer
Film
Sopranos
Together
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I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
David Chase / Writer
Editors
Miserable
Sometimes
Trying
Unconscious
Always Me Sometimes
Editor
Me Sometimes Always
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I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
David Chase / Writer
Done
Hbo
Want
Prior
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Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
David Chase / Writer
Cameras
Dialogue
People
Prisoner
Television
Camera
Corner
Follows
Hall
Walk
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Character
Interesting
Writing
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The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it was about my mother.
David Chase / Writer
Firsts
Mother
Secret
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Kids
Children
Human Beings
Thinking
Beings
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Add
Connections
Thinking
Visuals
Network
Network Television
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When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.
David Chase / Writer
Kids
Cousin
Hardy
Surreal
Thinking
Extremely
Laurel
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Fascinated
Film
Tempted
Direction
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Afghanistan
Cruelty
Degradation
Horrible
Needs
People
Therapy
Time Money People
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Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
David Chase / Writer
Hitchcock
Hollywood
Made
People
Anyone Else
Few People
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Choices
Comedy
Important
Writing
Choice
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The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
David Chase / Writer
Fall
Laughing
Stupid
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
David Chase / Writer
Humor
Bathroom
Filled
Infantile
Retrograde
Sopranos
Stupid
Adolescent
Puns
The Sopranos
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Code
Mafia
Ridiculous
Sopranos
Rules
Among
The Sopranos
To Love
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People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.
David Chase / Writer
Hate
People
Television
Medium
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Home
Sound
Way
Screen
Systems
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I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
David Chase / Writer
Cameras
First Time
Firsts
Tvs
Camera
Time First Time Film
Frames
Italians
Pictures
Screen
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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?
David Chase / Writer
Choices
Distraction
Important
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I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
David Chase / Writer
Imagine
Lying
Talking
Time Your Person
Lie
Relations
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I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
David Chase / Writer
Amount
Artistic Life
Self
Selfishness
Thinking
Follows
Material
Package
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Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'
David Chase / Writer
Death
True Love
Car
Changed
Light
Light Bulb
Mortality
Subject Matter
Songs
Oh
Blues
Bulb
Head
Love Songs
Rock
Pop
Subject
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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.'
David Chase / Writer
Inspirational
Motivational
Eye
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I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
David Chase / Writer
Space
Cold
Isolation
Loneliness
Mean
Said
Sun
Universe
Against
Each
Except
Guard
Happen
Pocket
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Doctors
Drama
Thinking
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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.
David Chase / Writer
Doctors
Sopranos
Good Always Bad
Writer
Bad Ones
Cops
Difference
Dramas
Franchise
Good Bad Always
Good Ones
Himself
The Sopranos
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You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
David Chase / Writer
Art
Dylan
Hands
Innate
People
Pop Music
Stones
Yearning
Art Music Where
Art Music Literature
Art Music People
Bob Dylan
Picasso
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Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.
David Chase / Writer
Direct
Believe Mind Your
Mouth
Uncle
Whoever
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