David Mamet

David Mamet's biography

David Mamet is 75 years old screenwriter born at Chicago. He was born on Sunday 30th of November 1947. According to year of birth 1947 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 30th of November means he is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.He was married 2 times.

David Mamet's spouse

He is married to Rebecca Pidgeon

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. He is an adherent of reform judaism. His primary profession is to be screenwriter. You can know him also as film director, playwright, film producer, writer, author, actor, novelist, poet, theatrical director. He is recently known as television producer.

David Mamet's family

David Mamet's spouse

She is known as actor. His spouse was born on Sunday 10th of October 1965.

David Mamet's ex spouses

Lindsay Crouse

David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse have been together since 1977 for 13 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Wednesday 12th of May 1948.

He has 2 daughters.

David Mamet's daughter: Zosia Mamet

David Mamet's daughter's name is Zosia Mamet. She is known as actor. His daughter was born on Tuesday 2nd of February 1988 in Randolph.

David Mamet's daughter: Clara Mamet

David Mamet's daughter's name is Clara Mamet. She is known as television actor. His daughter was born on Thursday 29th of September 1994 in Randolph.

David Mamet's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Goddard College, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Francis W. Parker School.

Detailed informations about his schools

• Attended Goddard College, Plainfield, VT with William H. Macy and Jonathan Katz.

David Mamet's career

His main focus is to be screenwriter. He is famous thanks to Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Awards and competitions

David Mamet's Awards

• His play "Boston Marriage" was performed at the Donmar Warehouse and New Ambassador's Theatre in London and was nominated for a 2002 'Laurence Olivier' Theatre Award for Best New Comedy of 2001.
• Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award for Best Play: in 1984 for "Glengarry Glen Ross," and in 1988 for "Speed-the-Plow.".
• His play, "Glengarry Glen Ross", was awarded the 1984 Joseph Jefferson Award for Play Production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

David Mamet's Nominations

• He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
• He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

David Mamet's quotes

• [to acting students at Atlantic Theater Company]Invent nothing, deny nothing.
• I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
• There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
• In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
• 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.
• The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
• A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
• [when asked to comment on adapting his own work for the screen] It's like raping your children to teach them about sex.
• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police, but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship", we call it "concern for commercial viability."
• Thank God Hollywood people don't have souls so they don't have to suffer through their lives.
• Hollywood is like cocaine. You cannot understand its attraction until you are doing it. And when you are doing it, you are insane.
• Hollywood is capitalism at its best: opposing forces working it out, using tools of the marketplace. As such, it's vastly messier than totalitarianism, but it kills a lot less people.
• I have to admit that I don't like Disneyland.
• Take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period and a better production.
• There's no such thing as character development; all there is is action.
• Working as a screenwriter, I always thought that 'Film is a collaborative business' only constituted half of the actual phrase. From a screenwriter's point-of-view, the correct rendering should be 'Film is a collaborative business: bend over'.
• [on why he writes] It beats thinking.
• In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
• The purpose of the theatre is not primarily to deal with social issues, it's to deal with spiritual issues ... to celebrate the mysteries of life. [1985]
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