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If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired. — William Monahan

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else. — William Monahan

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

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. — William Monahan

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

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

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing. — William Monahan

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising. — William Monahan

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. — William Monahan

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made. — William Monahan

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both." — William Monahan

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it. — William Monahan

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

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan

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

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

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

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. — William Monahan

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan

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

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

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general. — William Monahan

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

You never know what people are going to go and see. — William Monahan

Life is too short to be serious all the time! — Sherry Monahan

I never write with particular actors in mind. — William Monahan

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times. — William Monahan

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me. — William Monahan

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

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. — William Monahan

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up. — William Monahan

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me. — William Monahan

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director. — William Monahan

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

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well. — William Monahan

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it. — William Monahan

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better. — William Monahan

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed. — William Monahan

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set. — William Monahan

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

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen.
Believing one's eyes
Is the difficulty. — Jean Monahan

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else. — William Monahan

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. — William Monahan

Casting is always subject to availabilities. — William Monahan

I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists. — William Monahan

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock. — William Monahan

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. — William Monahan

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

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything. — William Monahan

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them. — William Monahan

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. — William Monahan

I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending. — William Monahan

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