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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
David Mamet
You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
David Mamet
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
David Mamet
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
David Mamet
The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
David Mamet
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
David Mamet
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
David Mamet
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
David Mamet
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
David Mamet
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
David Mamet
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
David Mamet
People only speak to get something.
David Mamet
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
David Mamet