William Monahan Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  William Monahan

  Want, Film, Ifs

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• If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.

  William Monahan

  Jobs, Focus, Wire

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• Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

  William Monahan

  Order, Casting, Actors

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• A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

  William Monahan

  Scripts, Doe, Wells

  "Exclusive: William Monahan Candidly Discusses THE GAMBLER, His Severe Bike Accident Earlier This Year, His Approach to Writing, MOJAVE, VENGEANCE, John Le Carre’s A DELICATE TRUTH, Television, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2014.

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• Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

  William Monahan

  Mind, Illusion

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• It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

  William Monahan

  Children, Thinking, Interesting

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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.

  William Monahan

  Book, Sleep, Ipads

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

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• For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only literary form in which you can still make money. There are no famous novelists, not as novelists used to be famous.

  William Monahan

  Novelists, Cracks, Able

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• I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.

  William Monahan

  Thinking

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• Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

  William Monahan

  Cutting, Color, Pushing

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• As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

  William Monahan

  Directors, Talent, Given

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• I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

  William Monahan

  Feelings, Needs, Way

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• As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

  William Monahan

  Guy, Directors, Firsts

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• When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.

  William Monahan

  Moving, Awards, Two

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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

  Thinking, Want, Kind

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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.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Ifs

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• I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.

  William Monahan

  Art, Needs, Opinion

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• I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, People, Surprising

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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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• It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I made some films and thought about films, but then I went into writing. Becket is something that's definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it's a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I'm wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Kids, Blood

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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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• 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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• 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.

  William Monahan

  Art, Care, Found

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• I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

  William Monahan

  Sound And Music, People, Sound

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