Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
William MonahanNovelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.
William MonahanAs far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.
William MonahanThe thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
William MonahanThere's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.
William Monahan