David Mamet

In Chicago, we love our crooks! ↗

— David Mamet

#crooks #love #our

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other. ↗

— David Mamet

#each #must #other #practice #world

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #hard #israel #jew #my generation

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. ↗

— David Mamet

#hard #plot #very #write

It's only words... unless they're true. ↗

— David Mamet

#true #unless #words

It's upsetting to be a man in our society. ↗

— David Mamet

#man #our #society #upsetting

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. ↗

— David Mamet

#art form #different #different ways #entertainment #evolved

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. ↗

— David Mamet

#beat #fear #greatest #line #me