Quotes from William Monahan

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.