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 was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
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.
We're making a show about a particular group of people. We don't try to maintain an outlaw status, but they are outlaws.
On the show Tony Sirico is a pillar. Off camera he's a dear friend. This is a great charity, a great day.
It is horrible. On some level that sort of is the downside of being a well-liked show, especially this show. We're in the public eye so much. We get reviewed every Monday. At the same time you can't quarrel with that. It is great that people take an interest. But yeah, it is a lot of pressure.
I think kind of disquieted, sort of rattled. Not feeling like things are going well.
People have the chance to see a possible, potential future for themselves in that, and it has a ripple effect.
I think what we'll be doing in (the final 20 episodes) would be that movie.
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.
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?