American - Dramatist | November 30, 1947 -
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
David Mamet
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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
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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.
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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
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I'm not an ascetic.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
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I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
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I look back on 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.
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