The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of oneโs own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
David MametThe purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
David MametA dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
David MametThere is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
David MametStorytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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