Quotes by Mamet, David

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

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

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say someth >>

Quotations about Principles

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and spli >>

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no prin >>

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their >>

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.

Mamet, David