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 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
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
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
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
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
