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.

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.

I love all Scarlett Avery's books. This one included. - Kathleen

Truth be told, there wasn't a single one of them who didn't deserve a lightning bolt from the Almighty. Everything else was straight mercy.

I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

The game has evolved over the years, and I don't think we have as a country. In other countries they have, and they adjust much quicker than our boys.

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.