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
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
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
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide. — 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
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
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
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
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — 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
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
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
Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment. — 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
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
