If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
