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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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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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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
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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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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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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
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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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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'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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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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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.
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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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