A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
From David Mamet
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
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