Directed by Martin Scorsese

"As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster."

Written by Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi
Music by
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by James Y. Kwei and Thelma Schoonmaker

"Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me."

Written by Paul Schrader
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography by Michael Chapman
Editing by Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro

"You know, this place makes me wonder... Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"

Written by Laeta Kalogridis
Music by
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy."

Written by William Monahan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."

Written by Terence Winter
Music by
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."

Written by Paul D. Zimmerman
Music by Robbie Robertson
Cinematography by Fred Schuler
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead."

Written by Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi
Music by Robert Richardson
Cinematography by Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing by Ellen Lewis

"Why don't you just go home?"
"Pal, I've been asking myself that all night."

Written by Joseph Minion
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"There might be some insurrection for a while. But then people forget that. They don't remember and they don't care. It will be another ordinary everyday tragedy."

Written by Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth
Music by Robbie Robertson
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"You didn't get me down, Ray."

Written by Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Joseph Carter and Peter Savage
Music by
Cinematography by Michael Chapman
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering."

Written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"It's not your fault. No one asked you to suffer. That was your idea."

Written by Paul Schrader
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here."

Written by Wesley Strick
Music by Freddie Francis
Cinematography by Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing by Ellen Lewis

"If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it."

Written by Steven Zaillian
Music by Robbie Robertson
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

Episodes: Boardwalk Empire (S1.E1)

"You can't be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore."

Written by Terence Winter
Music by
Cinematography by Stuart Dryburgh
Editing by Sidney Wolinsky

"You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?"

Written by Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin
Music by
Cinematography by Kent L. Wakeford
Editing by Sidney Levin

"I pray but I am lost. Am I just praying to silence?"

Written by Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks
Music by Kathryn Kluge and Kim Allen Kluge
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"You don't care about money because you've always had it."

Written by John Logan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose... it's like you're broken."

Written by John Logan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other."

Written by Richard Price
Music by Robbie Robertson
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

Episodes: Pilot (S1.E1)

"I always tried to give the audience what they wanted and in return they made me ridiculously, stinking, fucking rich. Now you might want to hate me for that, but before you do, remember this you jealous prick - I earned my right to be hated."

Written by Mick Jagger, Rich Cohen, Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese
Music by
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by David Tedeschi