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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Chicago
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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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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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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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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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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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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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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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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Like Lincoln said: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.
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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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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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They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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Based on a true story is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of no loan request refused. For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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