A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“My generation has a giddy delight in dissolution. [...] To inspire the unsophisticated young to demand "change" is an easy and a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from… — 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
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
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