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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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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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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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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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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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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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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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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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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
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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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What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
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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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