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David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
David Mamet
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
David Mamet
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
David Mamet
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
David Mamet
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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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.
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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.
David Mamet
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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