Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — 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
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 think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to… — 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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