92 Quotes by David Chase

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

There's a tremendous amount of camaraderie between these guys, as well as a lot of competition and backbiting. They come to me and say, 'Why did he get to do this? Why did he get to do that?' A lot like they are on the show with Tony. And it's true that when they're together, a kind of group-think takes over.

It may be that in two or three or four years I could be sitting around and get an idea for a really great 'Sopranos' movie. I don't think that will happen. But if one morning somebody woke up and said this would make a really good, concise, contained 'Sopranos' story, I wouldn't rule that out.

It's unfortunate that this proposal didn't come forward in October because we have lost serious time getting these facilities together for the Bluffton children.

Notre Dame was a big game for us - a statement game. We were still stinging from the loss to Ridgefield. We showed we could beat a quality team.

I mean a couple of years ago (HBO head) Chris Albrecht called me and said we should really seriously think about how long we want to go and how this thing should end. So I took that to heart and thought about it a long time and plotted it out and this will be the end, yeah.

I hope that over the past seven years we succeeded in bringing a little of it back.

I have no idea what (Campbell and Baker) said, what they told them. I haven't voted for a primary site -- location or site. It's all still in process.