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" 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. "

David Milch

Director

Out

Process

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Now

Money

" 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. "

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Experience

Person

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Used

Race

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" 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. "

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

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I Am

Instrument

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Work

Family

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Truth

Truth Is

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