I was a good student until I turned 15. Then, all of a sudden, it didn't matter to me anymore. Isn't that funny. I don't want to go to... →
Clara Mamet
Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason... →
David Mamet
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's... →
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their... →
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
A 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... →
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners.... →
Zosia Mamet