Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.
William MonahanA 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 MonahanI'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
William MonahanI learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
William Monahan