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.

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.

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.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.