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“Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.” quote by William Monahan — Download Open image

“Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.”

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“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 decide to do every day…

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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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The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America as a nation coincided with the Romantic era and I've always been thoroughly into the Romantics and I've always been thoroughly into America, particularly at the time when it was a brand new idea, when it…

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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 that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that…

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