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I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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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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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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I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
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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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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
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The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class and accent all these things that are fundamental to Boston, but previously anomalous or even prohibited in demotic American films.
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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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In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.
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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 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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Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
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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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Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.
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