Top 105 Quotes by David Mamet

About David Mamet

These are some quotes by American author David Mamet Dramatist, who was born on November 30, 1947.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

David Mamet

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.

David Mamet

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

David Mamet

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

David Mamet

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

David Mamet

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

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

David Mamet

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

David Mamet

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

David Mamet

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

David Mamet

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

David Mamet

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