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William Monahan Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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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.



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.

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.



I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.



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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.



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

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



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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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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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