Made Quotes by William Monahan

8 Made quotes by William Monahan

William Monahan’s brief eight‑quote selection zeroes in on the idea of being made. It’s a handy starting point for anyone wanting a taste of his voice on this theme, presented without extra fluff.

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If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film…

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It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I…

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[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and…

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That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can…

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I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going…

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You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

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Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's…

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In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America…

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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…

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If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

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I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love…

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Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

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Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be…

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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

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For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only…

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London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

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I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point…

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