David Mamet Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

  David Mamet

  Three, Answers, Want

  "Crossings: David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media". Book by Johan Callens, 2009.

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

  David Mamet

  Movie, Able, Scripts

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

• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

• 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.

  David Mamet

  Stars, Character, Mean

• Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Amusement, Film

• "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.

  David Mamet

  Understanding, Stories, Film

  David Mamet (2008). “Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business”, p.154, Vintage

• Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

  David Mamet

  Film

  David Mamet (1987). “House of Games: A Screenplay”, p.15, Grove Press

• 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.

  David Mamet

  Drama, School, Useless

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

• The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Order, Answers

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

• Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

  David Mamet

  Talking, People, Film

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

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