People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

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.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.

I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.