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You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.
David Milch
You
Mistake
Try
Resources
Make
Want
Harbor
Your
I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.
David Milch
You
Director
Think
Out
Some
Onto
Clear
Idea
Dry
Because
Without
Go
Hanging
Intentions
Then
Your
Disrespectful
Set
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
Me
You
Long
Ran
Say
Out
Run
Someone
Part
Well
Deadwood
Does
How
Contract
End
Intend
Realize
Asked
Seasons
Four
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.
David Milch
Time
You
Science
Reality
Matter
Long
Long Time
Sense
Energy
Our
Has-Been
Perceived
Fact
Know
Been
Where
In Fact
Us
Moment
Now
Sleep
I have several different masks that I wear.
David Milch
Several
Wear
Masks
Different
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
David Milch
You
Own
Humility
Purposes
Content
Understand
Vessel
Trying
Your
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.
David Milch
Myself
Try
Own
Sense
Think
My Own
Writer
Disappear
Working
Position
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
People
Say
Has-Been
Beat
Beaten
Nail
Like
Know
Learn
Hammer
Been
Who
They Say
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.
David Milch
You
People
Worth
Mind
Say
Claiming
Enter
Seeing
Horse
Horses
Beat
Badly
Feel
Performed
Like
Looks
Get
Race
Might
Who
They Say
Now
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.
David Milch
Great
Man
Challenges
Different Kinds
Dilemma
Faulkner
Pleasures
Those
Alive
Gifts
Kinds
Able
He
Materials
His
Questions
Gets
Modern
Different
Modernity
Race
Themes
Us
Aspects
Speaks
Many
Among
Specify
Bring
Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.
David Milch
Faulkner
Impeccable
Wrote
His
Just
Film
Ear
Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
David Milch
You
Same Thing
Saw
Churches
Never
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Same
Oz
Showbiz
Thing
I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
David Milch
Purposes
Instrument
Understand
Am
Fully
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.
David Milch
Together
People
Money
Better
Pool
Group
Our
Syndicate
Say
Bet
Bets
More
Gives
Better Chance
Winning
Join
Come
Track
Spread
Gotten
Cover
Us
Each
Whom
Chance
That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.
David Milch
Love
Soul
Other
Definition
Out
Spirit
Similarly
Going
Being
Separate
Received
Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.
David Milch
Time
Experience
World
Better
Collaborate
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Having
Ultimately
Sisters
Richest
Your
Even
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.
David Nevins
You
Game
Simple
Reward
Ambition
Think
Enormous
Television
Boring
See
Give
Something
Points
Audience
Coming
Very
Get
Just
Them
Hard
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
David Nevins
Culture
Monument
Memorial
Always
Lincoln
Get
Trying
Not Interested
Place
Interested
Iconic
Shots
Capitol
Shows
Washington
Right
So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.
David Nevins
You
First
Incredibly
Way
Television
Minutes
Both
Know
Go
Surprise
Five
Going
Just
Where
Predictable
Pack
Storytelling
Create
Much
Show
Element
Watch
Tone
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
David Nevins
Love
Control
Every
Think
Marketing
Though
Ability
Something
Operate
Still
Get
Essentially
Being
Wants
Producer
Even
Shows
Now
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.
David Nevins
Big
Dramatic
Eye
Lies
Silly
Collision
Wink
Shameless
Like
Look
Comedic
House
Real
Go
Very
Stories
Disparate
Moments
Tones
There are only two classes - first class and no class.
David O. Selznick
Class
First
Classes
Only
First Class
Two
This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
David O. Selznick
Me
You
Eye
Open
May
Bushes
Your
Rescue
Keep
Keeps
Dragging
Dame
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
David O. Selznick
You
Paramount
Schedule
Permit
Cannot
Disrupt
I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
David O. Selznick
Ate
Feared
Never
Nor
Grapes
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
David O. Selznick
Me
You
Will
Sit
Down
Terms
Accept
Contract
Offer
Any
Guarantee
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