Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
David Mamet
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
Author
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Theatrical Director
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
Idea
Spirit
Ideas
Human
Humans
Reiteration
Nothing
Debases
Matter
Unexplained
Every
Matters
More quotes by David Mamet
You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
David Mamet
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
David Mamet
It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
David Mamet
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
David Mamet
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
David Mamet
When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
David Mamet
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
David Mamet
Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
David Mamet
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
David Mamet
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
David Mamet
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
David Mamet
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
David Mamet
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
David Mamet
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
David Mamet
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
David Mamet
I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
David Mamet
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
David Mamet
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
David Mamet
