David Mamet
David Mamet Trivia
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David's brother-in-law is actor Matthew Pidgeon.
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David a has sister who is a producer/writer named Lynn Mamet. They are both often credited as the writers and producers on David's show The Unit.
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David's height is 5'6" (1.68m).
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When invited to appear as a guest programmer on cable channel TCM, Mamet picked the four following films: In Which We Serve, Island in the Sky, Le Jour Se Leve and The Killing. Mamet presented the films on March 22, 2007.
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First script for film was in 1981 with a re-make of The Postman Always Rings Twice
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David won the Pulitzer prize in 1984 for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross".
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David Mamet: Hollywood is like cocaine. You cannot understand its attraction until you are doing it. And when you are doing it, you are insane.
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David Mamet: There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
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David Mamet: Thank God Hollywood people don't have souls so they don't have to suffer through their lives.
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David Mamet: I have to admit that I don't like Disneyland.
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David Mamet: We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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David Mamet: A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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David Mamet: I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
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