In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script… — 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 don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct.… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless… — 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
Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well,… — 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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