Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
David MametFilms have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David MametA liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David MametIt is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
David MametEvery reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.
David Mamet