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" All I do is work and be with my family. "
Work
Family
" A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you. "
Experience
Person
Me
" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "
Fight
Hours
Day
" As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working. "
My Own
Think
Try
" A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning. "
Together
People
Money
" Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter. "
Values
You
Offend
" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "
Ego
Act
Suppression
" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "
Time
Experience
Better
" Every man's entitled to hope. "
Entitled
Every
Hope
" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "
Race
Great
Man
" Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable. "
Ear
Film
His
" For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite. "
Best
Good
Good Person
" Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own. "
Own
Humility
Trying
" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "
I Am
Instrument
Am
" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "
People
Myself
Including
" If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly. "
Feel
Horse
Mind
" I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. "
Me
Rome
Time
" I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer. "
Chaos
History
Humility
" I have several different masks that I wear. "
Masks
Wear
Several
" I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do. "
Know
Rose
You
" I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world. "
End
I Am
Best
" In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman. "
Trying
Woman
Help
" In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since. "
American
Work
Years
" I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason. "
Bear
Kid
Reading
" I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry. "
Think
You
Director
" It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family. "
Family
Work
Gift
" I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business. "
Done
Business
Feel
" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "
Wish
More
Kind
" I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people. "
Learn
Know
Like
" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "
Learning
Great
Process
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