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- Nov 07, 2020
All I do is work and be with my family.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts of your nature, so I'm always grateful for that chance.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Masks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have several different masks that I wear.
- Nov 07, 2020
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.
- Claiming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's entitled to hope.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020