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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.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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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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You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.
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Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.
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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
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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 as well.
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I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.
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The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.
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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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