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
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.
No one enjoys being equal.
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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?'
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'