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
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
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — 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
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
Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write… — 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
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you… — 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
Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct.… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — 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… — 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
The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense… — 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 I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version… — 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
If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to… — 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
As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to… — 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
In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script… — 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
London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties… — 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 don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could… — 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
All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the… — 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
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
I didn't have anything to do with selecting IFC. I don't have anything to do with distribution, or business, or marketing, but… — 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
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