David Mamet

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. ”

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble. ”

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. ”

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money. ”

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. ”

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. ”

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. ”

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact. ”

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. ”

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ”