David Mamet Quotes About Film
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I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.
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"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"
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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
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The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.
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