Quotes by : David Mamet

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can....

Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking about....

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy....

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,'....

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they....

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the....

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me....

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media....

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber....