360 Quotes by David Mamet

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

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.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

I don't really have a social life.

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.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.