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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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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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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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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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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
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IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
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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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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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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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I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
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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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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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