Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
David MametPeople may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David MametBefore you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
David MametI look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
David MametOne person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
David Mamet