There's a certain type of person drawn to the gangster world, and they're generally young men who were predisposed to violence and risk-taking, who like to make a lot of money quickly and wear flashy clothes.

To get to work with my idol, Martin Scorsese, has just been lovely - the highlight of my career.

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you'd probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody's definition of carnage and evil is different.

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn in a script and never be heard from again.

If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas.

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer.

I'm not exaggerating when I say 'Taxi Driver' was the movie that stopped me in my tracks. That was the first time it got me thinking about movies.