The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the…” quote by David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59e/david-mamet-1178_blah_if-you-re-neurotic-and-you-think-i-m-not_2370151.jpg)
