Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

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.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

I have selective hearing.

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

I wear a lot of things for fun. Sometimes Ill wear one item that is deliberately stupid because that will make the outfit cool.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome.