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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.

William Monahan

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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
Critic
Film Director
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T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.
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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.
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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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I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
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As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.
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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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It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.
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I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
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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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