David Mamet said this quote

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

~ David Mamet

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

~ David Mamet

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

~ David Mamet

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.

~ David Mamet