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From Quotes by David Mamet
- Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes…
- Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
- I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
- The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him…
- Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
- Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle,…
- Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
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