American - Dramatist | November 30, 1947 -
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
David Mamet
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It's only words... unless they're true.
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
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My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
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Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
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People only speak to get something.
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