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'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'

I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'