Years ago Mamet was working with him on a project and he kept asking Jay to show him a trick. Every day he’d come after him, show me a trick, I want to learn a trick.
Finally Jay does, gives him a great card trick, Mamet is floored. “Okay,” says Jay, “now practice it until you’re the best in the world at it, show it to me and we’ll see if you can do it for anyone else.” “I don’t have that time,” says Mamet, and never asked him to see another trick ever again.
