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
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
In Chicago, we love our crooks!
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.
Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?