“The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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
“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
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 examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — 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
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in… — 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
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“The first rule of tinkering is, of course, ‘save all the parts.’ But in dismantling the social fabric, the parts cannot all… — 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
