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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

David Mamet

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
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It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
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Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
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