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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."
Explore more quotes by David Mamet
"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
"I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money."
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