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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 23 quotes by Terence Winter Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire. Before creating Boardwalk Empire, Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series The Sopranos. In 2013, he wrote the screenplay to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street for which he was nominated for an Academy Award... Read full biography of Terence Winter → 1 2 Ctrl → I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement... → 0 When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was... → 0 Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster. 0 I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much. 0 If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog:... → 0 J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me... → 0 The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there... → 0 I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way. 0 I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed. 0 One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about 'The Sopranos'... → 0 One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between... → 0 Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of... → 0 Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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