3 December 2020 David Mamet My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
3 December 2020 David Mamet In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
3 December 2020 David Mamet Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
3 December 2020 David Mamet The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
3 December 2020 David Mamet It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
3 December 2020 David Mamet There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead.
3 December 2020 David Mamet 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.
3 December 2020 David Mamet You know, young actors say all the time, ‘Should I use my own life experience?’ And my response is, ‘What choice do you have?’
3 December 2020 David Mamet 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.
3 December 2020 David Mamet When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
