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.
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 MonahanSaying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.
William MonahanAll of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.
William Monahan