The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class and accent all these things that are fundamental to Boston, but previously anomalous or even prohibited in demotic… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you… — 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
