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When I started out I was a failed actor.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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Film Director
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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The audience requires not information but drama.
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A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
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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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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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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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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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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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