The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of… — David Mamet Copy Share
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in… — David Mamet Copy Share
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is… — David Mamet Copy Share
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.” — David Mamet Copy Share
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators… — David Mamet Copy Share
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to… — David Mamet Copy Share
“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.… — David Mamet Copy Share
![“Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope…” quote by David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7fb/david-mamet-1178_action_consider-for-all-the-gobbledegook-film-s_1913442.jpg)
