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There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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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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It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.
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Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
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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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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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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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You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.
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Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.
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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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I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.
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