David Mamet Quotes About Dialogue

Quotes about: Dialogue

• A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Movie, Able, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

• Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Writing, Play

• There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Want, Dialogue

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