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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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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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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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I don't really have a social 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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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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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.
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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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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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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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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.
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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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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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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.
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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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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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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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