Tony Gilroy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Lying #Ideas #Two
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Emotion #Break #Sentimentality
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Knowing #Action
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
-- Tony Gilroy

#People #Rewriting #Behinds
I prefer writing originals.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Writing
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Writing #Sketching #States
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

#Writing #Thinking #Years
I worked for a lot of directors.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Directors
I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Jobs #Taken #Want
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Thinking #People #Done
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Sorry #Successful #Should
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Cost #Film #Certain
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Careers #Scripts #Bunch
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Writing #College #Remember
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Crazy #Levels #Different
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Sand
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

#Writing #Tunnels #Wind
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Young #Used #Organized
You have to know human behaviour â€¦ And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. Youâ€™ll never write above what you know about people.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Writing #People #Understanding
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Way #Surprise #Audience
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Ambiguity
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Play #Actors #Directors
Different people work different ways.
-- Tony Gilroy

#People #Way #Different
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Moving #Community #World
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Animal
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Scripts #Imagine
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Nice #People #Philippines

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