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
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish — 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
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to… — 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
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to… — 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
