You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them. — 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
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
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
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
They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to… — 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
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New… — 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
“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
![“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [mind] and here [heart] and what you…” quote by William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e0/william-monahan-3226_every-day_i-put-no-stock-in-religion-by-the-word-r_8215.jpg)
