Formalistic Quotes by David Mamet

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David Mamet has 151 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish
• Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to…
• Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction…
• We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles…
• The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps,…
• Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success…
• The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom…
• The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty…
• Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
• It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
• The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

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