If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. — 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
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you… — 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
When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point.… — 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.… — 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
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
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
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at… — 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
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — 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
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
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
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
I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — 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 write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have.… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but… — 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
I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an… — 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
![“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If…” quote by William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3a/william-monahan-3226_ambitious_eugene-o-neill-made-a-living-certainly-a_1474343.jpg)
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