I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its openin… - David Mamet

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

The priests of our new idolatry are the politicians and their nongovernmental like who have discovered the old secret of power gained through fear of the mob.