"James was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.' There would be silence at the other end of the phone,"David Chase recalled yesterday, in a statement given to press following the sudden death of James Gandolfini. And it’s hard to disagree that the actor was indeed a composer, crafting performances on the stage and screen that will live far beyond his tragically too brief career.
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