360 Quotes by David Mamet

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

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

Oh, you know what? I got a better idea.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

I'm not saying Mike was like that in real life. Although he was and is.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

The audience requires not information but drama.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

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