“ Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help. Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises. And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home. It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure. He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information. [...] Far from being invulnerable, Superman is the most vulnerable of beings, because his childhood was destroyed. He can never reintegrate himself by returning to that home it is gone. It is gone and he is living among aliens to whom he cannot even reveal his rightful name. ”
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“ 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- Copy
“ Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiplechoice 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. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them ”
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“ The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing… ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ”
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“ In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ”
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“ The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them ”
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“ We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life. ”
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“ I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law. ”
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“ People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability.". ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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