American - Producer | March 23, 1945 -
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
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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.
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I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have several different masks that I wear.
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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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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.
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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.
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