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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
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IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
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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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We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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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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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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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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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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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