David Mamet Quotes About Drama

• El tema del drama es La Mentira. Al final del drama LA VERDAD -- que ha sido pasada por alto, ignorada, despreciada y negada -- prevalece. Y así es como sabemos que el Drama ha terminado.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Mentir, Escribir

  David Mamet (2013). "Tres usos del cuchillo: Sobre la naturaleza y el propósito del drama", p.87, Vintage

• The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Hero, Struggle

• Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Independent, Plot

• Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Drama, Unhappy Person

  David Mamet (1986). "Escribir en restaurantes", Viking Adult

• IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Writing, Character

• We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Drama, Our Dreams

  David Mamet (1986). "Escribir en restaurantes", Viking Adult

• 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

• Las películas han degenerado a su funcionamiento original como diversión de feria: no ofrecen drama sino emoción.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Amusement, Film

• El público no necesita información, sino drama.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Información, Público

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

• La pregunta principal en el teatro, tal y como me enseñaron, es siempre: '¿Qué quiere el protagonista? Eso es el teatro. Se reduce a eso. No se trata de temas, ni de ideas, ni de escenarios, sino de lo que quiere el protagonista.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Ideas, Doe

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