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" Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable. "

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" 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. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" All I do is work and be with my family. "

" 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. "

" With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein. "

" 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. "

" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "

" 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. "

" When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to set, everyone would kind of work on it together. "

" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "

" 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. "

" What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy. "

" So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts of your nature, so I'm always grateful for that chance. "

" 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. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" 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. "

" To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process. "

" 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. "

" The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was. "

" When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that. "

" My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back. "

" 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. "

" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "

" You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake. "