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.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

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.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Hope comes in many forms.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat.

I'd learned balance is internal

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

A race is a work of art.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.