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
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.