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 love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
I won't ever do e-mail.
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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.