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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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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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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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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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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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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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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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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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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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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I don't really have a social life.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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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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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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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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