"I would just say that you’re coming up against certain deep, fundamental biological truths: that any living thing is subject to the laws of mortality, and that there was nothing that was done with any of these horses that was unnatural, nothing that was other than what they had evolved to do. [In claiming otherwise], there’s a kind of moral and emotional fastidiousness that is entailed, which at a certain point becomes absurd. Organic matter depends upon the appropriation and consumption of other organic matter. There are just truths that obtain whether we find them pleasant or not. The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating."

"Mann said the Milch script for 'Luck' was one of the richest and most compelling that had ever crossed his desk.... Underpinning all of it is the juxtaposition between the majestic horses and the desperate people who exploit them and one another. Mann is especially pleased by the shadows in the plot.... All of it is a puzzle to be solved, and Mann, the detective, seemed giddy to be on the case."