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David Mamet Quotes

American - Dramatist | November 30, 1947 -

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.

Yourself Mind You Play Minds Stage

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Myself Political Exercise Look Back

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

Truth Best Aesthetic Place Hollywood

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Art Entertainment Difference Same

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

Great Hero Struggle End Goal Drama

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

Science Trust Fly Common Sense Earth

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

Great Better Talking Down Said Meet

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Good Ugly Swimming Comfortable More

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Nothing Spirit Human Spirit Matters

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

Family Happiness Peace Die Perfect

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Man Society Be A Man Our Upsetting

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

College Lawyer Labor Know Bubble

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