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. David Mamet badcostumeidea Change image and share on social
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. David Mamet clutchcomfortablefact Change image and share on social
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. David Mamet backbeliefdescribe Change image and share on social
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. David Mamet americanentitleopinion Change image and share on social
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. David Mamet aestheticamericanconsider share on social
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. David Mamet audiencebeatfear Change image and share on social
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.' David Mamet hemingwaypeoplereservation Change image and share on social
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. David Mamet cleancombatcornish Change image and share on social
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom. David Mamet beliefdirectionexperience share on social
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. David Mamet beatcherishcitizen Change image and share on social
