Terence Winter

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

— Terence Winter

As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

— Terence Winter

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if…

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that…

— Terence Winter

One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents…

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you'd probably throw them in the same category as the…

— Terence Winter

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

There's a certain type of person drawn to the gangster world, and they're generally young men who were predisposed to violence and…

— Terence Winter

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

— Terence Winter

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a…

— Terence Winter

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let…

— Terence Winter

I'm not exaggerating when I say 'Taxi Driver' was the movie that stopped me in my tracks. That was the first time…

— Terence Winter

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

— Terence Winter

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

— Terence Winter

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know,…

— Terence Winter

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

— Terence Winter

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

— Terence Winter

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was…

— Terence Winter