David Milch

Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.

— David Milch

A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I…

— David Milch

So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts…

— David Milch

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So…

— David Milch

The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's…

— David Milch

The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and…

— David Milch

The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in…

— David Milch

What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science…

— David Milch

I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita.…

— David Milch

What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable…

— David Milch

For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a…

— David Milch

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have…

— David Milch

Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses…

— David Milch

I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging…

— David Milch

My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the…

— David Milch

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger…

— David Milch

Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to…

— David Milch

Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my…

— David Milch

The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never…

— David Milch

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I…

— David Milch

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might…

— David Milch