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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: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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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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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 alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing that politicians go in poor and go out rich that the Government screws up everything it touches and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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