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
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and… — 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
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
I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical. — 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
You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference… — 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 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 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
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