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Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.
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My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.
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Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.
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I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
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I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
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I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.
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