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
On the show Tony Sirico is a pillar. Off camera he's a dear friend. This is a great charity, a great day.
I think the board and the district have lost 90 precious days of progress in solving the problem of growth in this community.
Hopefully the proposal will include a delivery system that shows how (the district) will deliver the projects in a more effective way than in the past.
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.
We're making a show about a particular group of people. We don't try to maintain an outlaw status, but they are outlaws.
Yeah. I think we're all going to be really sad when it's ended. Everybody, hopefully, will feel we've done good work, and there won't be that huge amount of responsibility and work to do. But I'm sure we're all going to be very sad.
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
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?
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.'
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.
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.
I have Tony?s background in my head very clearly. I keep creating his back story as we go along, and it seems like I?m the only one who can do that, or should.
I hope that over the past seven years we succeeded in bringing a little of it back.