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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
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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Massachusetts
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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 someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.
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As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.
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If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like a novel made for the screen and things like that.
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You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.
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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 I think you sensed when you were there.
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I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
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Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.
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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
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If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.
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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 kind of screwed.
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When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
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On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.
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I've always been a bit repelled by Sunset Boulevard, which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.
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You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
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In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
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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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The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
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Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.
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I never write with particular actors in mind.
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I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.
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