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.

That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

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.