They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of … - William Monahan

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Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

William Monahan

They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors are habituated to sometimes having to save a picture on the floor because it's usually part of their job, but they'd rather have a writer doing his job, so that they can do theirs. But I like nothing better than working with actors.

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When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.

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You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

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I 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.

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I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.

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I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

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