David Mamet Quotes
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There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
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The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
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Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bullshit.
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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
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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.
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The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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I won't ever do e-mail.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.