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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
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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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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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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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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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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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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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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 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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