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I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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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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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
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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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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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I never write with particular actors in mind.
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I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.
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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.
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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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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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Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.
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I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.
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Casting is always subject to availabilities.
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I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
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I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.
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I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.
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I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.
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Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.
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I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
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