My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign. David Mamet More Quotes by David Mamet More Quotes From David Mamet It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism. David Mamet abortionissuesviews 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). David Mamet one-dayjudgingpeople Film is a collaborative business: bend over. David Mamet film I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. David Mamet viewsmindbelieve The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. David Mamet fashiontragedyclass In Chicago, we love our crooks! David Mamet crookschicago It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. David Mamet hardplotwriting 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 fightingwrestlingculture I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. David Mamet filing-cabinettypewritersthinking In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. David Mamet insecurityscaryworld They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. David Mamet generationsmistakeyears We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? David Mamet testsformdoe We all hope. It's what keeps us alive. David Mamet alive Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? David Mamet powerfulworldart The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene. David Mamet scenestudyplay 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. David Mamet hollywoodviolencereal 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. David Mamet entertainmentwayart IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. David Mamet writingcharacterdrama The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. David Mamet symbolic-meaningperceptiontragedy I hate vacations. There's nothing to do. David Mamet vacationi-hatehate
