David Milch Quotes

United States, Writer
March 23, 1945

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

Also known as Producer

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

David Milch
- Life
- Great
- Live
What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

David Milch
- People
- Control

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.

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

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

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

David Milch
- Life
- Art
- Experience
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.

David Milch
- Good
- Horse
- Excellence
Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.

David Milch