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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
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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
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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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In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
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You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
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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 like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.
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I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.
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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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I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.
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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 love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
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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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If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.
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Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.
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Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.
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Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.
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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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I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.
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