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
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.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
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.
Hope comes in many forms.
I think people are intolerant of artists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
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.
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.'
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
We're making a show about a particular group of people. We don't try to maintain an outlaw status, but they are outlaws.