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 think people are intolerant of artists.
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 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.
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 already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
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.
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.
There will be these 12 (upcoming episodes) and then another eight, and that will be the end.
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.
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.
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 think kind of disquieted, sort of rattled. Not feeling like things are going well.
I don't know. When I talk to people, they seem to want it to come back. If somebody wants to watch another show, that's great.
I don't have to come to work, grab my pretend son, smash him up against the refrigerator and get in his face. For him to work himself up to that, where you're in that kind of moment and believing that, it must not be easy.
Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.