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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.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.