David Mamet’s Face To Face Interview (1998)

David Mamet’s Face To Face Interview (1998)

Jeremy Isaacs’ 1998 “Face To Face” interview with Mamet, where he discusses acting, playwriting, theatre, plus his life and career. It’s 37 minutes long but well worth the time. I’ve pasted some nuggets from it below…

“if the teacher and directors … aren’t capable of describing what they require in simple English, then those teachers and directors don’t know what they’re talking about.”

“[actors] should learn their lines, understand very, very simply what the character in the script is doing, and try to find a congruent action for themselves, which is physically capable of being done.”

“That’s what the violent myth means, the Western or the shoot-em-up. It’s not an invitation to go out and kill people. It’s an attempt to do away with intolerable, unresolved perception.”