David Chase
David Chase
David Chaseis an American writer, director and television producer. Chase has worked in television for 40 years; he has produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure. He has created two original series; the first, Almost Grown, aired for 10 episodes in 1988 and 1989. Chase is best known for his second original series, the influential and critically acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos, which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth22 August 1945
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I don't pretend to have a crystal ball. But I have great confidence that politically they're going to work this out for the children.
None of us on the show, ... ever thought it would do anything.
I hope that over the past seven years we succeeded in bringing a little of it back.
I think the board and the district have lost 90 precious days of progress in solving the problem of growth in this community.
On the show Tony Sirico is a pillar. Off camera he's a dear friend. This is a great charity, a great day.
He heard us hum maybe three notes and he started humming the whole song. Why he knows it, why people know it, I couldn't tell you. But they really do.
He believed that it would bring, you know, those elements to the show. I think we have an incredible crew of unbelievable creative people who didn't want to, you know, leave home. And they were willing to work 18 hours a day.
One would think that when we've been talking about a referendum for over a year, you'd think that we'd have a clear direction by this time. After all, the superintendent has been in charge for about eight months.
We haven't talked about it in a long time. ... It's hard to see how it would work. I think what we're going to be doing the next year and a half would have been that movie.
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?
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.
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.
When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
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.