David Mamet
David Mamet
David Alan Mametis an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Rossand Speed-the-Plow. Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His play Race opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 November 1947
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.
You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
People only speak to get something.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.