David Chase Quotes (36 Quotes)

Let's just say some people get hurt.

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.

He believed that it would bring, you know, those elements to the show. I think we have an incredible crew of unbelievable creative people who didn't want to, you know, leave home. And they were willing to work 18 hours a day.

The truth is both, really. It really is true. It really is true. I mean, obviously they're all not going to go up in a nuclear cloud, but I hope it has both of those things in it.

The truth is both, really. Obviously they're all not going to go up in a nuclear cloud.

People have the chance to see a possible, potential future for themselves in that, and it has a ripple effect.

Hopefully the proposal will include a delivery system that shows how (the district) will deliver the projects in a more effective way than in the past.

I think the board and the district have lost 90 precious days of progress in solving the problem of growth in this community.

None of us on the show, ... ever thought it would do anything.

I don't want to depend on the developer to come back and say, 'This is where we are,' because that never happens.

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.

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.

This will be the end.

I think what we'll be doing in (the final 20 episodes) would be that movie.

We have eight more games to go and we want to win them all. If we can win a title, people will think we're for real. We can't take anything for granted.

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

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.

I do think I've been part of something extraordinary here.

One would think that when we've been talking about a referendum for over a year ... we'd have a clear direction by this time.

I don't want to detract from the group's good intentions and time commitment, ... (But) I'm not clear what their mission is.

I don't know. When I talk to people, they seem to want it to come back. If somebody wants to watch another show, that's great.

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.

We haven't talked about it in a long time. ... It's hard to see how it would work. I think what we're going to be doing the next year and a half would have been that movie.

I have Tonys background in my head very clearly. I keep creating his back story as we go along, and it seems like Im the only one who can do that, or should.

It is horrible. On some level that sort of is the downside of being a well-liked show, especially this show. We're in the public eye so much. We get reviewed every Monday. At the same time you can't quarrel with that. It is great that people take an interest. But yeah, it is a lot of pressure.

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

On the show Tony Sirico is a pillar. Off camera he's a dear friend. This is a great charity, a great day.

He heard us hum maybe three notes and he started humming the whole song. Why he knows it, why people know it, I couldn't tell you. But they really do.

We're making a show about a particular group of people. We don't try to maintain an outlaw status, but they are outlaws.

Yeah. I think we're all going to be really sad when it's ended. Everybody, hopefully, will feel we've done good work, and there won't be that huge amount of responsibility and work to do. But I'm sure we're all going to be very sad.

I don't pretend to have a crystal ball. But I have great confidence that politically they're going to work this out for the children.

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.

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

There will be these 12 (upcoming episodes) and then another eight, and that will be the end.

I think kind of disquieted, sort of rattled. Not feeling like things are going well.

I don't have to come to work, grab my pretend son, smash him up against the refrigerator and get in his face. For him to work himself up to that, where you're in that kind of moment and believing that, it must not be easy.