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" Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. "

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" When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. "

David Mamet

Saying

Time

Ideas

" Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order. "

" The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. "

" I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. "

" It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. "

" 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. "

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

David Mamet

British

Profound

" 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. "

" I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.' "

" 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

Own

Culture

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

" Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. "

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

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

" In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other. "

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

" There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough. "

" I won't ever do e-mail. "

David Mamet

Ever

E-Mail

" 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. "

" Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. "

" 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. "

" Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. "

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. "

" I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. "

" 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. "

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

" It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. "

" Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. "

" The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv. "