Terence Winter famous quotes

04-18-2025

I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.
-- Terence Winter

#Drinking #Airplane #Thinking
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.
-- Terence Winter

#Fighting #Games #Office
I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.
-- Terence Winter

#War #Book #Thinking
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.
-- Terence Winter

#Real #Character #Way
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
-- Terence Winter

#Trading #Equity
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
-- Terence Winter

#Way #Distraction #Gangsters
I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.
-- Terence Winter

#Real #Focus #Needs
As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...
-- Terence Winter

#Running

Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Terence Winter famous quotes

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