Television Quotes by Terence Winter

8 Television quotes by Terence Winter

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Terence Winter’s gritty storytelling sensibility shines through these eight concise TV reflections. The snippets blend his sharp insight with a touch of edge, offering a quick, compelling read.

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TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs.

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I was a big fan of the show 'Deadwood' on HBO, which was created by David Milch. And as soon as I…

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In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer…

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One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning…

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It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to…

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Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried,…

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I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in…

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Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

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It's challenging, in a way, but if you depict anyone with all the colors of human emotion and show those moments - with their…

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My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

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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.'…

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I'm not interested in someone's credits. Let me see who you are, and tell me a story of your life.

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For me, I need to fully immerse myself in a script to the point where I'm literally locking myself away for weeks at a…

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If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my…

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During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your TV show!…

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There's nothing funnier for me than taking two characters and throwing them into a pressure cooker and letting them turn on each other. Especially…

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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…

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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…

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We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

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I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.

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I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad…

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If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences.…

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