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
It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics. — 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
Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it… — 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… — 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
Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which… — 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
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
“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
