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
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 have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
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.
But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended
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 have eight more games to go; and we want to win them all. If we can win a title, people will think we're for real. We can't take anything for granted.
We're making a show about a particular group of people. We don't try to maintain an outlaw status, but they are outlaws.
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.'
I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.