David Milch of Deadwood (Part 1 of 6)

[@CraftsmanBJJ]

As someone that has dealt extensively with Mr. Milch, I couldn't disagree more. He's exceedingly humble and one of the nicest guys you can ever meet. Whip crack smart too.

[@mikegribanov6105]

I get the feeling the students there, don't realize how much of a gift this experience is

[@FrancescaSilveri]

David Milch is a true genius he raises TV scriptwriting status to a even higher standard than that of many films we see at the cinema.

[@thatswhyidrink]

I think I watched this whole thing three times now, it's very insightful.

[@GoTeamHiroshima]

David Milch is a fucking genius. He's just endlessly fascinating.

[@qvc1212]

I don't know if you noticed, but he's dumbing down his language for the undergrads. He is a genius. Watch some other interviews, such as the one on the Deadwood DVD's where he explains the reasoning behind the use of profane albeit very formal language on the show.

[@wendellfitzgerald2]

Beautiful insight that art is used to sell something else, an article of commerce, and the validity of the art is determined by how well it sells the something else. It resonates with the thought I recently encountered that if you do not pay for what you get (television and the Internet) you become the product.

[@jstephenj]

He's a million times the storyteller that David Chase is. God, I wish HBO gave Deadwood the chance that they gave the Sopranos. I guarantee that if Milch was given the chance that Chase was he would have given Deadwood a much better sendoff than the Sopranos.

[@MrGittz]

No. He’s not.

[@MrDave475]

@GoTeamHiroshima Fucking A I mean you can just see it in the interview and in his work like deadwood which just has so many layers to it

[@stringerbell603]

Agree to disagree then, I suppose. I dunno, I still consider the fact that he routinely keeps the other writers' names on script credits even if he heavily doctors it a show of respect (M. Weiner and others only do so if the script is less than 30% theirs, if I correctly recall the discussion he had with Milch and Gilligan), and I referred to the internship 'of a lifetime,' not 'for life.' But again, fair enough.

[@TheJZOZHZN]

I thought your comment was interesting, until you misspelled "till".

[@walterbrob]

as good as the Sopranos...and better than all the rest

[@godbluffvdgg]

LOL the sopranos? That's like comparing Southpark to Waking Life... I liked the Sopranos too, saw every one of them many times but one show of Deadwood has more profundity than the entire repertoire Of the Sopranos...

[@gaborbanko4037]

godbluffvdgg why watch all the episodes many times if you don't understand shit?

[@godbluffvdgg]

Gábor Bankó Get a real name fucko!

[@jstephenj]

Perhaps it's because of the overpraise that The Sopranos tends to get from the pop culture mainstream. Sopranos had a slick surface to it, but when you looked closer, there were alot of cracks to that began to show up as the seasons went on. Unevenness in quality, not the least of which was Chase's tendency to drop certain storylines midstream. The quality of acting had its disparities as well. Deadwood, Wire -- up and down had a stellar cast. Sopranos not so much.

[@stringerbell603]

Sure, just disregard his many moments of self-criticism, not to mention the exploration of self-esteem problems in this very video. Or the fact that he created a wonderful show recently with 'Luck,' sadly cancelled due to tragic, unexpected circumstances. I guess the 'bottom feeding artists' that he always keeps near him during writing (internship of a lifetime) don't matter to him one bit. At least listen to the rest of the discussion.

[@LeshaAnn]

@TheJZOZHZN So did you.

[@spdstr588]

I thought he was one of the most enlightened humans on earth tell he took a sip of that red bull.

[@msacrajr]

Arrogant. Could have expressed his point without being so vile.