David Mamet Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.

  David Mamet

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

• What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Two, Giving

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

• Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

  David Mamet

  Self Confidence, Years, Skills

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.103, Vintage

• The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

  David Mamet

  Giving, Want, Palestinian

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