Terence Winter quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 WinterSource : "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.
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“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.”
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“I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.”
-- Terence WinterSource : "Q&A: Terence Winter on The Wolf of Wall Street's Infamous Candle Scene". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. December 23, 2013.
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“Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”
-- Terence WinterSource : Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
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“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 WinterSource : Source: collider.com
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“As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...”
-- Terence WinterSource : "‘Boardwalk Empire’ creator Terence Winter talks season 4". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. November 24, 2013.
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“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”
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Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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“All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.”
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“I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?”
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“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.”
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