William Monahan Quotes

• 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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  Reading, Understanding, Trying

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

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  Trying, Want, Used

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Young

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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.

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  Directors, Facts, Film

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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.

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  Stars, War, Writing

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

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  Gente, Intentar, Mirar

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Running, Moving, Thinking

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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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  Association, Motion Pictures, Cases

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• If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like "a novel made for the screen" and things like that.

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  Rights, Giving, Advice

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• Soy un gran fan de los cortes del director o de los remontajes si son buenos, pero recuerdo que me entusiasmó la versión restaurada de Apocalypse Now, y luego preferí la película original. Kingdom of Heaven como montaje del director es la leche, pero de hecho alguien me dijo hace poco que había otro montaje, el primer montaje original, que decía que era sencillamente extraordinario. Nunca la he visto, y por supuesto ahora quiero hacerlo, si es que existe, al igual que todo el mundo.

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  Real, Cutting, Heaven

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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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  Historical, Together, Stitches

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• Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.

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  Artist, Criminals, Bags

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• They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors are habituated to sometimes having to save a picture on the floor because it's usually part of their job, but they'd rather have a writer doing his job, so that they can do theirs. But I like nothing better than working with actors.

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  Jobs, Drama, Games

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• I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

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  Achievement, Guy, Levels

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• A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

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  Character, Interesting, Criminals

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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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  United States, Bills, Classic

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

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  Kids, Film, British

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

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  Honesty, Kind, Film

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• Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.

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  Darkness, Might, Scripts

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• 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.

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  Writing, Novelists, Bigger

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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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  Thinking, Stuff, Scripts

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• Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

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  Novelists, World, Enterprise

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