Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
David MametThe first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
David MametCulture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
David MametA stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
David Mamet