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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
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I don't really have a social life.
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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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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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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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One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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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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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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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
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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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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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The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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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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