David Mamet Interesting Quotations

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.