53 Quotes by Terence Winter

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.

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

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! Whatever's going to happen, it's all okay because there's no way they can kill the star.

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.

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.

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.

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

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

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