Occupation: Writer Birth: August 22, 1945
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..
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me la….
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out..
When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it..
I think people are intolerant of artists..
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur..
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..
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. ….
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….
Cancer don't respect nothing..
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 nothin….
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..
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 d….
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies..
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 alre….
But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended.
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 c….
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..
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner..
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….
Hope comes in many forms..