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William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying the script this and the script that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.
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Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
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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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Casting is always subject to availabilities.
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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.
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As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.
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When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.
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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 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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I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.
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You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
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I never write with particular actors in mind.
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Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.
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I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
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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 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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Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.
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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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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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All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, It's very visual, isn't it, and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.
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