The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. – David Mamet
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. – David Mamet
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. – David Mamet
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and its still evolving in different ways. – David Mamet
Its coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. Its not just climate change its sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. – David Attenborough