David Mamet Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Lying, Writing

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.87, Vintage

• It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

  David Mamet

  Lying, Fiction

  "State and Main". www.imdb.com. 2000.

• If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

  David Mamet

  Mother, Lying, Thinking

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