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

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.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

I'll repent one day, just not right now.

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.