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 conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.
The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
The audience requires not information but drama.
The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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.
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.
I'm responding to the will of the people.
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.