Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.