I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
William MonahanI was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
William MonahanI love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.
William MonahanDoing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.
William Monahan