Quotes by Mamet, David

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it can >>

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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of >>

Quotations about Disasters

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry >>

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding a >>

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succe >>

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. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Mamet, David