Wells Quotes by William Monahan

9 Wells quotes by William Monahan

William Monahan’s nine short lines on wells read like tiny narrative vignettes, each hinting at a larger story behind the simple well.

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For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

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You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which…

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The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as…

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If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience…

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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.…

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A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless…

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If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but…

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Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well,…

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I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense…

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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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