“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?” — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.” — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not… — 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… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons -… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success… — 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… — 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
