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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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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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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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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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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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Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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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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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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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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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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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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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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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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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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