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Going Quotes by David Mamet
- Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
- Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character…
- If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all…
- When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the…
- Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go…
- Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the…
- Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
- I think I'm going to have a drink.
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