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" 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. "

David Milch

American

Work

Years

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Now

Money

" Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my contract run out?' And I realize my contract ran out at the end of four seasons. "

David Milch

Long

Run

" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle. "

" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "

" 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. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Milch

Learn

Know

" The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out. "

David Milch

Truth

Truth Is

" 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. "

" My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge. "

" 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. "

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

" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "

" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "

David Milch

I Am

Instrument

" The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "