360 Quotes by David Mamet

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn’t threaten us.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you’ve won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler’s Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ’concern for commercial viability.

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you’ve got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you’re learning to say it better.

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

I love working on a typewriter – the rhythm, the sound; it’s like playing the piano, which I do, too.

I won’t ever do e-mail.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn’t matter whether it’s truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.