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I never write with particular actors in mind.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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Film Director
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Boston
Massachusetts
Claude La Badarian
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The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
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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 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 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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When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.
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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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The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.
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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 love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
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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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I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.
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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
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I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.
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When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.
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I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.
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I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.
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You never know what people are going to go and see.
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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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