Books Quotes by William Monahan

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will…

— William Monahan

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film…

— William Monahan

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered…

— William Monahan

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let…

— William Monahan

In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more…

— William Monahan

The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America…

— William Monahan

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're…

— William Monahan

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love…

— William Monahan

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be…

— William Monahan

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

— William Monahan

For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only…

— William Monahan

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

— William Monahan

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point…

— William Monahan