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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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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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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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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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Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
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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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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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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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The audience requires not information but drama.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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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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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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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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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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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.
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