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
Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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.
Oh, you know what? I got a better idea.
I'm not saying Mike was like that in real life. Although he was and is.
I'm responding to the will of the people.
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.