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" 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. "
David Milch
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" Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own. "
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" 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. "
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Moment
Time
Science
" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "
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Never
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" 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. "
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" Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable. "
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Ear
Film
His
" 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. "
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Me
Long
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" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "
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Fight
Hours
Day
" 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. "
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End
I Am
Best
" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "
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Time
Experience
Better
" 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. "
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Together
People
Money
" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "
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Learning
Great
Process
" Every man's entitled to hope. "
David Milch
Entitled
Every
Hope
" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "
David Milch
People
Myself
Including
" 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. "
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American
Work
Years
" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "
David Milch
Now
Money
Me
" 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. "
David Milch
Family
Work
Gift
" 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.' "
David Milch
Medicine
Shut Up
You
" 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. "
David Milch
Influence
Believe
America
" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "
David Milch
Growing Up
Growing
Western
" 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. "
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Me
Rome
Time
" 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
Me
" 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. "
David Milch
Trying
Woman
Help
" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "
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Soul
Spirit
Going
" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "
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Earn
Writer
Amount
" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "
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Ego
Act
Suppression
" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "
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I Am
Instrument
Am
" 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. "
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Race
Great
Man
" 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. "
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Feel
Horse
Mind
" All I do is work and be with my family. "
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Work
Family
" 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. "
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Director
Out
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