American - Writer | August 22, 1945 -
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'
David Chase
LoveArtLightTrue LoveDeathTrue
Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.
PeopleBrandHollywoodBeenMadeHe
I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?
LoveLonelinessSpaceSunIsolation
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.
ThinkConnectionsMysteryTelevision
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
WalkPeopleCameraTelevisionDown
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
TimeMoneyPeopleTherapyNeedSeen
I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
TimeLieTalkingYouPersonLying
People get so tired of the '60s.
TiredPeopleGet
I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
TimeCameraPicturesFirst TimeFilm
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.
WritingStoryComedyYouChoiceGo
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
HumorMeStupidLaughBadBathroom
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
LifeThinkYouSelfishnessWhoPart
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict David Chase quotes