William Monahan Quotes
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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
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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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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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Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.
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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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Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.
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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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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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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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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.