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David Mamet Quotes
Best Quotes by David Mamet (Top 10)
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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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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It's only words... unless they're true.
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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
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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 hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder âcensorship,’ we call it âconcern for commercial viability.
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Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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More David Mamet Quotes
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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 not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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