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" 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

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Run

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Milch

Old Man

Man

" 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. "

David Milch

Experience

Person

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church. "

" 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. "

David Milch

Used

Race

" The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence. "