Peace Quotes by David Mamet

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

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

— David Mamet

When I started out I was a failed actor.

— David Mamet

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

— David Mamet

“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

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

— David Mamet

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

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

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

— David Mamet

“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

“How was her crumbcake? oh.. from the store... …”

— David Mamet

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

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

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

— David Mamet

“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.…

— David Mamet