360 Quotes by David Mamet

I don’t think there’s any information to be gotten from television.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all ‘pictures of people talking’ – as, indeed, most of them are.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won’t ever do e-mail.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a ‘set of suggestions.’

You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It’s the Chicago way and that’s how you get Capone.

It’s upsetting to be a man in our society.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious – about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

I’ve always been fascinated by the picaresque.

It’s hard to write a good plot, it’s very hard.