David Milch

When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

I have several different masks that I wear. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”