Tony Gilroy quotes

Different people work different ways. (Tony Gilroy)
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
Tony Gilroy
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
Tony Gilroy
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
Tony Gilroy
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
Tony Gilroy
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
Tony Gilroy
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
Tony Gilroy
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
Tony Gilroy
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
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I worked for a lot of directors. (Tony Gilroy)
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
Tony Gilroy
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
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I prefer writing originals.
Tony Gilroy
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
Tony Gilroy
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
Tony Gilroy
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. (Tony Gilroy)
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
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I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
Tony Gilroy
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
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