Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.
I wish we had the movie rights to this deal, ... It's like Citizen Kane meets the Sopranos with Marx Brothers thrown in.
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.
Cancer don't respect nothing.
Hope comes in many forms.
When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
Those who want respect, give respect.
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.