Begins Quote by Michael Pitt

It was just an incredible experience all around on 'Boardwalk.'

— Shea Whigham

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go:…

— Michael Shannon

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of…

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Terence Winter

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

— Lauren Conrad

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop…

— Peter York

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an…

— John Leo

“On the boardwalk the arcade jukebox plays all night surrounded by teenagers--sometimes twenty bodies deep, bare-skinned and full of energy for the music, for…

— Laura Schenone

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…

— Terence Winter

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has…

— Bertrand Russell

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

— Dane DeHaan

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we…

— Drew Carey