William Monahan Quotes - Page 6

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

  William Monahan

  Drama, Form, Vulgar

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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.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Novelists, Bigger

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

  William Monahan

  Directors, Film, Ends

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• By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency.

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  Stuff, Way, Fluency

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• When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

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  Writing, Ordinary, Saws

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• I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

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  Writing, Firsts, Odd

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• I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.

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  Moving, Schedules, Able

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• 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.

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  Boys, Discovery, Boston

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

  William Monahan

  Real, Hands, Attention

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