Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
David MametThe job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.
David MametArt and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
David MametA play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
David Mamet