David Mamet DEMOLISHES Hollywood Executives and Brain-Dead Liberals

[@patrick_dy3r]

“If the bureaucrats in Washington cared about the United States, they’d join the military or get a job.”

[@kimstringfellow6493]

Wise words

[@imwelshjesus]

So how long did you serve?

[@carolyna.869]

Yes, I will join the military when they start protecting America.

[@imwelshjesus]

@@carolyna.869 Really, I always presumed the US military required at least a modicum of intelligence.

[@smythharris2635]

​@@imwelshjesusno, just a girl with a dyk, will do.

[@writereducator]

Here is a David Mamet story. While trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter, I met a young woman who was David Mamet's personal assistant. I stammered, "Wow. What is it like to work for him?" She said, "It's like nothing." "What do you mean?" I replied. "He is a writer," she said. "He comes in in the morning. Then he goes in his office and writes. When the day is over, he leaves."

[@milletrad8871]

Mamet told an anecdote about the time that he considered renting an office to go to and write in: A rental agent welcomed him, walked him down a hallway, opened a door to a compact room, and said, "It has a window also." Mamet said, "I don't need a window," and ended the visit.

[@proto-geek248]

Awesome 😅 Not much going on, but speaks volumes.

[@banzand]

That’s a purposefully glib response.

[@monkeyshake3508]

Really dig Mamets work and his honesty, but Jesus didn't go kicking and screaming. He finished what he came here to do with unbelievable grace and stoic courage. God bless

[@wjriii4073]

As for the idiotic Jesus quip, What a stupid, irrelevant, out of context self-righteous thing to say.

[@skyko]

Not many of us have what Jesus had...

[@Denise-dm2qy]

He went humbly and willingly to his death. He couldn't have been killed unless he obeyed God who willed it. His will was the same as his Fathers! His comment was just ignorant.

[@corribnews2219]

You said--God bless you.--Kevin Whelan

[@SalveRegina8]

Amen!

[@IronTeddyBear]

When I was at MIT, I was blessed to get to know David Mamet. The MIT theater department would entice Broadway playwrights to teach the undergrad theater class as adjunct professors, paying their travel, accommodations and speakers fees. The semester I took the class, I had no idea who he was. He took us through Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Brecht, and quickly into the 20th century. He passed out scenes from a play he was writing called "Glengarry Glenross", and we students got to act out the parts during class, before the script was finalized. Amazing experience!

[@JHimminy]

MIT: material AND spiritual warfare.

[@opticracer3927]

No way! That movie is Amazing. 👍

[@thomassimmons1950]

David Mamet, among others, may have saved my life. As a young working class kid in St. Louis, his language and sensibility made me realize that indeed, I was not alone. I eventually left for Chicago to pursue an acting career. I found myself understudying the role of Charlie Fox in SPEED THE PLOW, and ended up opposite Billy Peterson, actually doing it for two weeks. I actually met David, briefly, and found him to be an avatar of grace and good will. What an experience! He remains a north star for me. Thanks Mr. Klavin for this offering!!

[@rosezingleman5007]

I’m such a big fan of Mamet. Incredible talent.

[@FishMan726]

Mr. Mamet always a privilege to listen to you speak truth! Your book, The Secret Knowledge was a treasure!!!

[@alancats]

Let's take a moment and praise the courage of conservatives such as Andrew and David (and, others, such as James Woods, Jon Voight, Gary Sinise, etc.) who have lost jobs, industry connections, friendships and income, by coming out as conservatives in an industry that vilifies dissenters and blacklists anyone who deviates from Leftist/Democrat groupthink and orthodoxies. These are all men of conviction, honesty and integrity.

[@babbarr77]

I believe most of the good people you mentioned are too old to have been sufficiently brainwashed.

[@hiramnoone]

I'm 70 pages in as well. Great book. I'm a little slow with it because I'm actually taking notes. As I did with his earlier book, "The Secret Knowledge". Some of those lines are just too precious to forget. Loved how David described his teachers in their description of *him* , as being "Intelligent but lazy", saying to the reader, "And you likely were described that way, too". Bingo! In my case. Great interview. David, like yourself, being one of the most droll, clever and interesting guys on the planet.

[@OgamiItto70]

Work smart, not hard.

[@vladimirhorowitz]

Lol same here (re: the teachers). The book is hilarious, but it's been taking me a while to read because his style is so eccentric and I struggle to keep up with his intellect. Lots of wisdom for aspiring writers.

[@goldbrick2563]

Never called lazy, to give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift

[@RFazor]

The great David Mamet

[@IamDoogy]

It’s a pleasure to get to eavesdrop on a conversation between a couple of wise men. It’s a bonus when they are humorous, as well. You always deliver, Andrew.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

I "discovered" David Mamet as a teenager in the late 1980's. His work inspired me to take up acting and to write screenplays. It also taught me how to swear with flair and vigor! When my film friends were salivating over Scorsese & De Niro, I was enjoying Mamet & Mantegna! There are very few pleasures in life and listening to Mantegna deliver a monologue written by David Mamet is one of them.

[@thenewyorkcitizen]

H.B.Studio?

[@ObviousArtists]

I love The Edge movie. Dialogue just flows.

[@milletrad8871]

Every aspiring writer should study his plays--in particular, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," "American Buffalo," and, "Glengarry Glen Ross." His screenplays for, "The Untouchables," "Homicide," and "Hoffa" are solid, too.

[@ratsoratso]

Mr. Mamet is right on. I’m exhausted being preached to by the Left.

[@surlypiratewench1969]

I’m exhausted of the right shoving their religious beliefs into legislation and their anti American rhetoric

[@nightshiftreports3866]

​@@surlypiratewench1969❤

[@surlypiratewench1969]

@@derechoplano 👍🏼

[@surlypiratewench1969]

@@derechoplano 👍🏼

[@chrishoff402]

@@surlypiratewench1969 The only religion I see being shoved on everybody is Progressive Leftist Cultural Marxism, and make no mistake, it's a religion. Anybody who thinks man made climate change is real needs to have their head examined. Even IF all the rise in the CO2 level came from human activity, and there's no proof it's not natural, you're talking about an increase of 0.01% of the atmosphere. For that we have to sacrifice the lives of tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet, and even if we do it, it won't change the worlds temperature by even 1/10 of a degree. Then there's the LGBTQ religion being pushed on school children so they can cut their genitals off and take drugs used to chemically castrate rapists, they're being sterilized, that's freaking eugenics, they grow up realize they can't procreate and they kill themselves. Then theirs the assisted suicide program in Canada where I live, they want to extend it with a quota of 10,000 disabled people every year, even though they can't get a single guardian or medical professional to agree with it, so the government says they'll train technicians to do it. We also now have free and legal hard drugs for addicts, overdoses have skyrocketed. Then there's Covid and the vaccines, a person has to be blind not to notice the vaccinated are dying faster than the unvaccinated. There's the support for the Ukraine Nazis that's fed two generations of Ukrainians into a meat grinder, completely avoidable. There's partial birth abortion, there's the jump in the suicide rate since 1970 among divorced men that's killed more men in Canada than either WW1 or WW2 or the American civil war in the U.S. If 500,000 extra dead women happened after no fault divorce was introduced Feminists would be screaming about it, because the victims are male nobody cares. The patriarchy theory supporting it is exactly modeled on the World Wide Jewish conspiracy, they just changed the nouns from Jew to male and Aryan to female. When you look at the number of men a typical divorce court judge will deal with that go on to kill themselves those judges are serial killers. They are compelled to take their own lives because the judgements handed down are so onerous they're reduced to slavery. My point being, any philosophy not from God leads to death, and everything emanating out of the Left leads to death, because the Left have become a death cult pushing their religious beliefs on everybody else.

[@smcten05]

This feels like Klavan interviewing Klavan with a different voice.

[@iamhudsdent2759]

No it doesn't. Guess you don't know who David Mamet is.

[@ruraljuror6585]

Definitely more profanity.

[@milletrad8871]

Andrew Klavan is less interesting than David Mamet is, however.

[@iamhudsdent2759]

Always a kick listening to David Mamet. It's like being back in school with a really good and funny teacher.

[@IronTeddyBear]

I took a theater class that Mamet taught, while at college. It was as fantastic as you would imagine.

[@ngonzale3]

Mamet is always wonderful to listen to. God bless him.

[@torceridaho]

wow, what a great interview. I read Mamet's take on the left about 15 years ago. It stayed with me and has held up under scrutiny. Thanks David and Klavan.

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

Please David, tell us how you really feel. Brilliant....

[@pahbert]

I like these guys.

[@MrMichealdrew]

Klaven talking shop with Mamet. Gotta love it

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

There is no E in Klavan lol

[@98pointseven]

I've enjoyed Mamet's work for many years but never knew how brilliant he is in person, or how laugh-out-loud funny. So glad you did this interview, Andrew. "Oink Oink" is definitely next on my reading list. I may even BUY it--though I'm pleased to see my local library has a copy. I especially like his observation that flattery is theft, which is something I've always felt to be true, though I never thought of it that clearly before. He says this is a truth in "Jewish tradition." Which rabbi in particular says that? I wish someone would help me with any citation that backs that up.

[@davebaldwin9457]

I believe he was referring to his personal rabbi which he may have named in previous interviews.

[@HappyGeneRC]

This is one of the very best dialogs I've heard between two great speakers.

[@Studbull]

Good to hear he left liberalism but I thought we were in a constitutional republic not a democracy

[@TheMalibuDar]

We are in both as there are different flavors of democracy. The republic version is the one we live in.

[@basilbcf]

Read David’s book “The Secret Knowledge: on the dismantling of American Culture.”

[@goldbrick2563]

Whats it about?

[@zacc684]

Tbh this is the best guy you’ve ever interviewed. Bring him back!

[@richardnagy1246]

Great interview.

[@paulb2092]

Bankruptcy of the published critics not only of the movies, but of all contemporary art forms, the absurd fawning nonsense over everything from music to art to wine.

[@1Powwow]

The movie poor things absolutely tedious Artists they're all looking over each other shoulders fear of been nabbed by some woke sin

[@carolmcln5028]

@@1Powwowbut it got such great reviews?! 😂😂😂😂 Not my kind of movie.

[@1Powwow]

@@carolmcln5028poor things apt title to a dismal poor frightfull movie the sound track was terrible, one dimensional with no poetry. I did like Movie lobster expected more ,a lot more llfrom the director, Art doesn't have tMoral,but it has to be poetic. Woke film's lack,

[@cileford]

“Nobody gos to see these movies on purpose. It’s bc they have no choice.” ~ an obvious genius 💋⚔️🎯🎥🫳🎤‼️

[@milletrad8871]

Beginning in the 1990s, I stopped watching most first-run Hollywood movies and "HBO specials," since so many of them seemed to conform to propagandistic norms.

[@robertpolanco1973]

@@milletrad8871 That comment is pathetic and filled with paranoia on the part of people who have been MISLED by RIGHT-WING LUNATICS who hate Hollywood as such!

[@_Peremalfait]

David Mamet must be one of the easiest of interviews. Just offer a prompt and then sit back and let him talk.

[@steve4562]

"People want to hear stories" Amen.

[@proto-geek248]

Hard-hitting simplicity.

[@johnbwill]

'Spartan' - one of the best movies ever made - wonderful scriptwriting - solid actors. David is such a talent.

[@craigbfolksinger]

When i was a drama student in the late 80s early 90s he was considered one of the best American playwrights with Eugene O'Neil Sam Shapard Tennessee Williams now when i read about great American playwrights hes never mentioned at all

[@reharl4953]

The dude wrote Glengarry Glenn Ross. Some of the most brilliant dialogue in stage and cinema history.

[@craigbfolksinger]

@@reharl4953 I agree with you

[@juliea2864]

Schools are the same type of bureaucracies. There are so many administrators in schools that their only job is to keep their job and go along with whatever malarkey nonsense garbage is the new thing, no matter how useless or destructive the new thing is. Colleges should publish their student: administrator ratio instead of their student: teacher ratio.

[@bcdside]

32:24 Mamet describes his feelings on LINCOLN (2012), invoking Ernest Hemingway and BOMBS AWAY by John Steinbeck. LINCOLN was written by known-lefty (and champagne socialist) Tony Kushner, so it’s not all that surprising how Mamet articulates his opinion on this film…

[@asamtaviajando8388]

Yeah, I’m so sick of the bs that is being shoved down our throats… I’m so done. I want stories!! Real stories!

[@blahblah6497]

Escapism has been taken out of film making, which is the entire point of it.

[@carolmcln5028]

Seems like they all have to preach in some way.

[@blahblah6497]

@@carolmcln5028Totally agree!!

[@JoaquinPhoenix-s3k]

Surely, David Mamet and Andrew Klaven could collaborate on a film project. They both know how to write good screenplays and interesting dialogue, much of what's missing from modern storytelling. Could you imagine a film like Don't Say a Word, meets Wag the Dog?

[@andrewgardner8972]

Definitely. They’re both great writers and they know what the audience wants to see.

[@susanpace9735]

Buying his book. How refreshing to not hear any BS!

[@boatdetective]

I could listen to David Mamet all... day... long. What a wonderful, irreverent mind.

[@susannahlewis8464]

Added the book to my Amazon book wish list. Super fun interview.

[@DSTH323]

A very smart and funny man. A delight to listen to.

[@geoplaten337]

Fantastic interview, thank you Mr. Klavan and Mr. Mamet. You two are both funny and thoughtful, a rare combination.

[@drewwilson6639]

Why can't the daily wire get this guy to write and direct a couple movies for them

[@craigbfolksinger]

One of the best playwrights ever he is great

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Not enough of Mamet!

[@proto-geek248]

Mr. Mamet is the man. Here is a writer with some serious credentials. The Spanish Prisoner is one of my all time favorite films. "Well, it would be back to the range for me!" Is up there with the greatest movie quotes in cinematic history. You want this man on your side. Watch out if you're not.

[@yamilborges5540]

thank you, thank you

[@MrDeepseadweller]

Fantastic interview. Thanks!

[@gailroot73]

People watched sound of freedom to witness child trafficking, the movie touched the surface. Human trafficking is a huge money making industry that cartels, in part, benefit from…affects everyone.

[@babbarr77]

I’m happy more notable people are speaking up and getting noticed for the truth they say.

[@varrick1226]

The Spanish Prisoner and Ronin two of the best movies I've watched thanks to David Mamet. God bless David and Andrew.

[@marcsmirnoff936]

Mr. Mamet claims (art the 5:21 mark) that Jesus went "kicking and screaming." The one recorded instance of Jesus "kicking and screaming" (tossing out the money lenders at the temple) is overwhelmed by many other recorded examples of Jesus displaying profound calm, profound charity, & profound love. He achieves this even while being crucified. ("Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.") Mr. Mamet may have read history and the Torah, but the Bible?

[@becky6568]

Maybe when Jesus asked God to take the cup from Him at the garden of gethsenamy ? His anxiety? I’m not sure. Just a guess .

[@marcsmirnoff936]

@@becky6568 You mean where Jesus says, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will"? That qualifies as "kicking and shouting"? In what way, exactly? How about another guess: Mamet's use of hyperbole in this instance is very sloppy and very imprecise-if not unfair.

[@rufus3781]

Jesus did not go kicking and screaming,outright lie and Klavan not correcting him is A problem.

[@RickW-HGWT]

Love his most recent book, trying to catch up with his work, the humor in his work are worth it alone.

[@mallninjarising]

david mamet is awesome

[@richardramsey9352]

Great, and the intro music/intro makes me feel like I am watching the original Bob Newhart show-really captures the 70s vibe

[@simonshaffer]

Great interview, I went right out and got the book. Thanks.

[@WesternOutpostDonVonFilms]

Mister Mamet is great.

[@user-ks8ux4ig6b]

both sides are intolerant...it just hurts more when you're shunned by your own

[@andreadaleyutronebel5894]

But Mamet isn't only describing wokeness but Jewish Power. Unless you're for Israel, they kick you to the curb. Mamet would never tolerate anyone who calls for justice for Palestinians.

[@RolandDeschain1]

David Mamet wrote a pretty bonkers screenplay for HANNIBAL, the SILENCE OF THELAMBS sequel. He did some interesting things with that terrible book. I'm not surprised they didn't use it. It's very dense and wordy, as you would expect, and with very specific camera direction. Almost as if he was going to direct it himself.

[@carolmcln5028]

What made it bonkers?

[@danmccalldesign]

That was awesome. Good to see David's working hard and telling stories. Screw Hollywood's dumb bullshit.

[@lord_insany]

It doesn’t matter what the public thinks. In a democracy, there is no way for the public to assert their will, at all. The government just forces things on you, while the media tells you it’s what you want.

[@princesskassandra4253]

I am a firm believer in quitting a game while it’s still fun, but you take that too far. This interview could have been an hour long. I’m going to break the Jewish prohibition against flattery and say that it was an absolute joy to watch Klavan interview Mamet, two cultural geniuses.

[@r_b5951]

I recommend Mamet's 2011 book, The Secret Knowledge: on the dismantling of American culture. I thought it interesting that Mamet described the revelations (his term) that began his conversion at the end of the book, chapter 37.

[@OgamiItto70]

Is Mamet baggin' on Sally Field? Because I like her. I _really_ like her! He's right for sure about no one liking the crappy woke Hollywood movies. That's why they've taken to bait-and-switch movies.

[@stevenfromer3816]

These men are brilliant as well as delightfully hilarious

[@mrs.donohue9569]

Never heard of this guy but I'm a fan already.

[@rumplestilskin5776]

Great interview, thank you.

[@jeremyogrizovich3247]

What a great talk, thanks for the work.

[@BayStatePrepper]

Great interview. On a different note, the Daily Wire people have the KZbin monetization knob turned all the way up to max. JFC

[@jill7759]

I know everyone complains about the ads during the KZbin videos and maybe I’ll get yelled at for saying it but the company is making inroads into children’s programming without the woke garbage. Programming you won’t need to vet if you let your child watch. Making their own movies and a great bulk of documentary programming on a wide range of subject matter. Movie/series offerings which improve steadily. Podcasts and videos for their several personalities etc etc. If you don’t want to see the ads you can buy a membership which isn’t that expensive especially if you go for the basic package which is about $9/month which almost everyone can afford. They’re a great conservative company founded and still controlled by conservatives, they showcase a variety of personalities, sometimes with wildly divergent views on specific issues but they never police those views. It costs a LOT of money to engage in the programming they are offering. You don’t have to agree with them all the time but you have to respect the dedication and the talent it took to develop the company. A dedication which continues to shine through especially if you’ve been watching the arc of its development since its infancy. I don’t really begrudge the ads if I’m watching on KZbin which I still do sometimes when I’m just too lazy to load DW even though I do have a membership.

[@ltcolumbo9708]

Yes!! Mamet's new book!! Must have it

[@Read2Friends]

Huge fan of The Untouchables too. And The Winslow Boy.

[@milletrad8871]

The subtext to almost eveything that David Mamet says is, "F_ck your bullshit. This is what I mean:...."

[@dize3672]

What a brilliant man!

[@BarryWolfeMusicPgh]

Thanks for another marvelous interview, Mr. Klavan. Another reason why yours is one of the most interesting sites on the Internet.

[@jerzaw]

Love the Weinstein interaction!

[@paulb2092]

Ahaha, "screwed, blued, and tattooed". Haven't heard that in forty years.

[@vg2b713]

Things changed at the NYT after Carlos Slim got onto the Board.

[@lada3264]

Thank you for standing up for us.

[@GenXfrom75]

Bravo 👏

[@jerome495]

What an interesting guy. Bravo!

[@sdm12342002]

I just watched "The Verdict" not too long ago - brilliant. The writing, the characters, the acting - great.

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Mamet calling his own writing “hysterically funny” twice in one anecdote … 👀 Don’t be so hard on yourself, Dave. 😮‍💨🤦‍♂️

[@johnwiltsey9933]

Bought his book, thanks for interviewing him!

[@kidmac44]

Thanks!

[@danapeck5382]

Thanks, really a treat, all the best

[@michaeltrombetta8559]

David Mamet wrote a line in the film "Homicide" that has stayed with me. I don't recall the question asked by the character but the response by a rabbinical student (as I recall) concerning morals was: "That depends on what kind of a Jew you are."

[@johnmac333]

A great listen here , cheers guys !

[@Liberty-rn4wy]

Ronin is great. Spartan is also really good.

[@winstonsmith8240]

The Zoo Story was one of my favourite plays when I was young. Fabulous writer. Such depth of character. Thanks.

[@stevenkarras3490]

Great guy I'm fortunate to know

[@dharryg]

It is so obvious from just the opening minutes of this interview that David Mamet is intellectually seven tiers above the Hollywood and the media numbskulls. I bumped into him a few tines back in Vermont, but unfortunately never made it to the same poker game he frequented.

[@frankwhite1816]

Thank you so much for this. Mamet is a genius and hilarious to boot! God bless you both! Loved this!!

[@kelvaris1]

He's so awesome. Love his writing and his ideas

[@button-jeff]

Great interview. Fun all round.

[@andrewwhite9739]

Good stuff. He's an inspiration to me for sure.

[@kennethdonedmund8988]

David Mamet is on fire!

[@bobfromdenison]

The most successful politicians will many times be sociopaths or psychopaths.

[@josephososkie3029]

Great interview. “ People want to hear stories”.