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24 transcript-backed records
01 / uncertainty
“When your daughter says that there are things that she hears me say, I would say one of the things that I really have felt, the older I’ve gotten, is just an incredible comfort in saying, “I don’t know.”
02 / belief
“Then, look, Hill Street Blues shows up in the ’80s and, I think, figures out how to use certain techniques of theater and cinema and novels to tell these TV stories.”
03 / belief
“To me, anyway, not reinvent yourself to fit the times, but be willing to reinvent yourself because it’s what your inner voice is telling you you need to do to stay an artist, I think is what he’s doing.”
04 / belief
“I think he probably wouldn’t have expressed his curiosity in the way I express my curiosity, but he had a similar kind of curiosity and appreciation for greatness.”
05 / belief
“For me, Bad Boy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance — those are two that I think are great.”
06 / recommendation
“That’s awesome to hear because, as you know, my son Sam certainly has a high opinion of you and your work.”
07 / recommendation
“s why someone like David Milch — that’s another book I would recommend. It’s Milch’s book, which is one of the best, maybe the best book ever written about television, the one that came out last year.”
08 / preference
“. I think about poker every day, and I am not a world-class poker player. I track my results very closely, and I’m flat.”
09 / evaluation
“I would say the coldness of Hitchcock and his style of directing performance — he’s a master.”
10 / evaluation
“I think Close Encounters is probably the one that’s quite deep, even if on the surface, it doesn’t seem that way.”
11 / evaluation
“I think All the President’s Men is another great example of a film that does that because right away, you are in this mystery.”
12 / evaluation
“I think that that Albany Cycle is a stunning achievement, and I think that Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game is his best book.”
13 / preference
“Oh, I have to just mention, the other writer who I think is the best writer in the world, and he also dabbles in magic realism, and he wrote, for me, the best book ever about a person who’s in the world of gambling, and that is William Kennedy’s Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game.”
14 / evaluation
“He’s properly rated now. That’s what I think. He was underrated. It’s one of the only times the Knicks got an asset below what should have been the market price for that asset.”
15 / recommendation
“Well, David Chang is a Virginian, so he certainly figured it out. I think you should look at the places he recommends in Virginia.”
16 / belief
“I would say if we did 100 days in the room, Mike was there for 94 of the 100 days.”
17 / belief
“Is the benefit of having this new utility of changing this infrastructure is the convenience worth what's on the other side of the ledger? And then, I think twinned with that, is the question of what happens sometimes when revolutionaries unseat fascists.”
18 / evaluation
“I'm going to challenge that just a little bit because Christian Bale plays Michael Burry in a movie.”
19 / evaluation
“There were all these things that we needed Travis to be because we also needed Travis to be somebody who you believed could enlist all these people in his world-changing vision, and we needed an actor who would try to protect himself at every turn.”
20 / evaluation
“There is a continuum though, isn't there? I think about your episodes about a16z and Mosaic to Netscape.”
21 / evaluation
“What someone like Joe could do is go deep enough to express with his face, his body, and his voice, something that's so particular, personal, and private to him, and because he does it with such openness and truth, we see it and we're moved by it because he's reflecting back to us parts of ourselves that we don't have the courage to experience or loss that we've experienced.”
22 / preference
“I use it all the time, it was the best. It would just take you on a total adventure on the Internet, and I loved it.”
23 / evaluation
“I don't know if people have seen it, but it shows the breadth of your work, man, because it's so different from the television series that you directed.”
24 / evaluation
“If you get in the back of the Uber and you're like, that guy's cool, but for one moment, you think about the person in the office who maybe wasn't treated right, or the driver who thought he was going to have a fleet of cars because there were deals that encouraged him to buy those cars, and then suddenly those cars are being towed away, which we show, it's in the book and we show it.”