David Mamet Jobs Quotations

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.