William Monahan Quotes

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• Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

  William Monahan

  Trying, Want, Used

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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.

  William Monahan

  Reading, Understanding, Trying

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• Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

  William Monahan

  People, Trying, Looks

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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

  Directors, Facts, Film

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• When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Thinking, Young

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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.

  William Monahan

  Stars, War, Writing

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• I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

  William Monahan

  Ocean, Needs, Atlantic Ocean

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• Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

  William Monahan

  Film, Blind, Committees

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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.

  William Monahan

  Stars, Thinking, Done

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• I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director has run a one-off game, but if Hamlet were written last year and had been only performed once as a film, and it didn't come off well on screen for whatever reason, it would be gone forever as a literary work, and never would have been considered as one.

  William Monahan

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.

  William Monahan

  Running, Moving, Responsibility

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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.

  William Monahan

  Running, Player, Thinking

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• You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Directors, Way

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• When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.

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  Kids, Light, London

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• London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

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  Growing Up, Blow, London

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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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  Tudors, London, Matter

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• I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Writing, London

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• I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.

  William Monahan

  Moving, Important, Directors

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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.

  William Monahan

  Numbers, Shooting, Littles

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• When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Mind, Shooting

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• The era I love most is the Federal period, just after the Revolution and the formation of the United States. The birth of America as a nation coincided with the Romantic era and I've always been thoroughly into the Romantics and I've always been thoroughly into America, particularly at the time when it was a brand new idea, when it was something brand new in the world. It was a very exciting time in the world because of the birth of America

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  Ideas, America, United States

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• I learned from Ridley [Scott] how to come out of the trailer at a fast walk and make your decisions and keep it going. We were very much on time and under budget, as they say. That was a very important thing for me and very satisfactory.

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  Decision, Important, Walks

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• I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.

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  Art, Care, Found

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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.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Exhibitions, Aversion

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• There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.

  William Monahan

  Running, Drama, Play

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