The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
David MametThe secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
David MametAny claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.
David MametIt's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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