Latest William Monahan Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New York, that sort thing - because in New York, you do go to theaters; you can walk to a theater and then walk to a restaurant. But in places you have to drive out to the cineplex to see a movie, it's starting not to be worth it anymore. It's like the days when you went to get a book at the public library. You don't have to do that anymore. You just go on your iPad and all of a sudden you're reading The Duchess of Malfi.

  William Monahan

  Book, Reading, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You never know what people are going to go and see.

  William Monahan

  People, Knows

  Source: collider.com

• I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.

  William Monahan

  Real, Drama, Writing

  Source: collider.com

• I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

  William Monahan

  Bridges, Rivers, Watches

  Source: collider.com

• You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Character, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Casting is always subject to availabilities.

  William Monahan

  Availability, Casting, Subjects

  Source: collider.com

• I never write with particular actors in mind.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Mind, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

  William Monahan

  Tired, Sound, I'm Tired

  Source: collider.com

• Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

  William Monahan

  Availability, Casting

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Serious, Fit, Given

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Gears, Film, Theater

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

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

  William Monahan

  Stars, War, Epic

  Source: collider.com

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

  William Monahan

  Stories, Care, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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

  William Monahan

  Answers, Stones

  Source: collider.com

• I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  William Monahan

  Dying, Stuff, Way

  Source: collider.com

• I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: collider.com

• All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.

  William Monahan

  Keys, Manhattan, Breakfast

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Gratitude, Kids, Important

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

  William Monahan

  Heart, Years, Soul

  Source: collider.com

• I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it.

  William Monahan

  Scotland, Intellectual, Massachusetts

  Source: collider.com

• Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.

  William Monahan

  Boys, Discovery, Boston

  Source: collider.com