Materials Quote by David Mamet Download Open image “Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.” — David Mamet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Materials Movie Scripts
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films. — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense. — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I am doing films that are content-oriented and where I have the scope to perform. Rarely do such scripts happen. — Amala Paul Copy Share Image
The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens. — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it. — Ryan Gosling 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
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
