360 Quotes by David Mamet

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

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.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.