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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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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?
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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
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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.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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