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David Milch

(1945) Screenwriter United States

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David Milch is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for True Blue.

Quick Facts About David Milch

Born: March 23, 1945
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: True Blue

About David Milch

David Sanford Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including ABC's NYPD Blue (1993–2005), co-created with Steven Bochco, and HBO's Deadwood.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Edgar Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writers Guild of America Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by David Milch · Page 2

I have several different masks that I wear.

Different

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In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks…

American

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If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there…

Horse

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The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

Advocate

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Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.

Faulkner

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Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

Accidents

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Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.

Cult

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The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.

Church

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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…

Birth

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

Death

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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

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All I do is work and be with my family.

Family

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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…

Actor

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

Director

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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.

Am

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

Being

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

Best

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

Church

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

Best

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

Brothers and sisters

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It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

I wish

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When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to…

Progress

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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…

Discover

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The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of…

America

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Every man's entitled to hope.

Entitled

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