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David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
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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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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
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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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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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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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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed unwittingly, the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
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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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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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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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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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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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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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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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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
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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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