Mamet had a ready solution.
Cut your d**k off and eat it.
Maher scoffed, but Mamet insisted, I meant that.
What part is unclear?
I was working making a living for 50 years before I ever heard the term, the industry.'
As soon as the suits mess around with a script, things go bad, Mamet insisted.
Some add mayonnaise, he said, while others rub things unmentionable things over their face.
I cant see why you would be fired, Maher joked.
Like everyone doing it for a long time, Ive made some stupid decisions, Mamet allowed.
The great writer insisted at one point that films dont need dialogue, as compared to plays.
He gave an example of why.
How did you know what point to do that?
Because you know nothing is going to happen in the scene.
So you’re able to get away with that when writing for the studio.
But if writing for an audience if you lose it, you cant get it back.
The conversation ranged from abortion to the conflagration between Israel and Hamas, and the debate between Gov.
Ron DeSantis and Gov.
The idea of Christian nationalism is no longer a fringe movement, Maher said.
He added that the Founding Fathers established that there would be no state religion.
Maher closed with a reminder of the words of John Adams.
The government is not founded on the Christian religion.
