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London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
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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 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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Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
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I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
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I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.
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Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.
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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 at first sight, as one does, and above all a story in which no one is what they appear to be.
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I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.
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Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
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There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book.
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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 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'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.
William Monahan
I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.
William Monahan
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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Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.
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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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