Famous Quotes / David Mamet
14 Quotations by David Mamet
- 1. A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned ...
- 2. Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.
- 3. In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed un ...
- 4. In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
- 5. People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they ...
- 6. Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they hav ...
- 7. The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand ...
- 8. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee c ...
- 9. The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresis ...
- 10. The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. ...
- 11. The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothin ...
- 12. We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of cou ...
- 13. We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of cal ...
- 14. We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.