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I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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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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Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
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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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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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I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.
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Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.
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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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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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I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
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I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.
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I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
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If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like a novel made for the screen and things like that.
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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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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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The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
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Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.
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