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David Mamet
 
Date of birth: 30 November 1947
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

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Director

Poet

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Novelist

Biography:
    David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an United States playwright, screenwriter, film director, poet, essayist and novelist. His theatre and film work is known for its clever, terse, and sometimes vulgar dialogue and his exploration of masculinity. /b>

He was born to a Jewish family in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Educated at the Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College and a founding member of the Atlantic Theate .... (More...)
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" A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. "

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" Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. "

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" I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. "

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" I hate vacations. There's nothing to do. "

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" In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing? "

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" In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. "

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" It's only words... unless they're true. "

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" People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. "

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" 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. "

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" The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability." "

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" We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."

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