#ram

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

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. ↗

— David Mamet

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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. ↗

— David Mamet

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We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ↗

— Og Mandino

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I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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