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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. "
Terence Winter
Live
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Life
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" Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why. "
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" I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets. "
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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. "
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" I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much. "
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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 families, with their children - the worst of us have elements of real humanity. "
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" There's a certain type of person drawn to the gangster world, and they're generally young men who were predisposed to violence and risk-taking, who like to make a lot of money quickly and wear flashy clothes. "
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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 time and I just write it. So I can write twelve to fifteen hours in a day, with breaks in between, obviously, but I need to just sort of live within the world of the script. "
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World
" 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. "
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" People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away. "
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Away
People
" 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 if they already tend to be loud, aggressive, alpha types. That's sort of everything from 'The Honeymooners' to 'Goodfellas' to 'The Sopranos.' "
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" J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s. "
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Know
Interesting
Me
" Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible. "
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Never
Nothing
Life
" TV is a level playing field, and you're competing for eyeballs. "
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Playing
Field
Competing
" I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general. "
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World
General
Gangster
" 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. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas. "
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Ideas
Say
You
" My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances. "
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Write
People
Circumstances
" In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn in a script and never be heard from again. "
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Control
Turn
Everything
" If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you'd probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody's definition of carnage and evil is different. "
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Life
Evil
You
" Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it. "
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End
Control
You
" I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer. "
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Know
" I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling. "
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" I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace. "
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Out
" 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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Someone
You
" One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about 'The Sopranos', having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side. "
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Morning
Conversation
Early
" If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it. "
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Speak
Tongue
People
" I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot. "
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Television
Look
Interesting
" 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 behavior. "
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People
Think
Behavior
" I was a big fan of the show 'Deadwood' on HBO, which was created by David Milch. And as soon as I heard that all of those characters on Deadwood were based on real people, the first thing I did was Google everybody. "
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Real
People
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