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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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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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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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 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.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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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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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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