William Monahan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- William Monahan

#Reading #Understanding #Important
Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
-- William Monahan

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

#Film #Blind #Committees
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
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
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

#People #Creative #Firsts
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.
-- William Monahan

#Lying #Believe #Literature
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

#Thinking #Gambling #Balls
If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.
-- William Monahan

#Sex #Grandmother #Thinking
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

#Ocean #Atlantic Ocean #Needs
I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.
-- William Monahan

#Art #Hero #Mean
Look at what people are trying to conceal, and youâ€™ll see that theyâ€™re revealing everything.
-- William Monahan

#People #Trying #Looks

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