About the Book:

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Bambi vs. Godzilla is an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who's always played by his own rules.

Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, David Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with David Mamet's signature style and wit.

What people say:

"Sharp, savvy …. Icily hilarious…. Mr. Mamet writes with insight, idiosyncrasy and a Godzillian imperviousness to opposition ." — Janet Maslin for the The New York Times

"Winningly pugnacious … [Bambi vs. Godzilla] is funny and angry and intemperate and passionate enough to tell the truth about movies." — San Francisco Chronicle

"This is a book infused with love – the sweet, helpless love Mamet has for film, and the communal process that makes it." — Los Angeles Times

"Playful … deft … Mamet the dramatist has developed a career as a prolific philosophical essayist." — Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author:

David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. His other awards include a Tony Award, an Academy Award, two OBIE Awards, two NYDCC Awards, and Outer Circle, Society of West End Theatre, and Dramatists Guild Hall-Warriner Awards.