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.

— David Mamet

David Mamet Quotes

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

— David Mamet

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.

— David Mamet

What we’re trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

— David Mamet

I don’t have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they’re useless, because I’ve had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

— David Mamet

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

— David Mamet

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

— David Mamet

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

— David Mamet

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you’ve won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

— David Mamet

The secret knowledge is there’s nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

— David Mamet

Like Lincoln said: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that’s not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

— David Mamet

Matrimony and monogamy have forever been linked with property and inheritance, the nuclear family, in the West, having been decided upon through trial and error as the most effective unit for preservation of both. In.

— David Mamet

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can’t go back.

— David Mamet

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

— David Mamet

The millennia-long evolution of the human family as a means of dealing with the environment was discarded by my generation of fantasists, in favor of a concept not only artificial, but inchoate: “freedom” – the pursuit of which has led to misery.

— David Mamet

But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change. For.

— David Mamet

The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions.

— David Mamet

The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can’t like it.

— David Mamet

The man had been the head of the postwar European operation called Aliyah Bet, the clandestine resettlement of the Jewish remnant of the Holocaust in Palestine. He had come to this position as a senior member of the Palmach, the fighting arm of the Haganah, which was the underground Jewish Army in Palestine, under the British Mandate.

— David Mamet

All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over.

— David Mamet

CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face. While accomplishing little or nothing.

— David Mamet
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