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

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

I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.

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

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

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.

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.