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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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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
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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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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
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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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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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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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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.
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