Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan Copy Share
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
Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide. — William Monahan Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times. — William Monahan Copy Share
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 Copy Share
