Tony Gilroy Quotes

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

Life, Love, Work

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

Interested, Surprise, Audience

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
Tony Gilroy

Budget, Ambiguity, Rises

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
Tony Gilroy

Good, Bad, Everything

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

Play, Poor, Films

Different people work different ways.
Tony Gilroy

Work, Different, Ways

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
Tony Gilroy

Moving, Everyone, Used

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

Fear, Everything, Afraid

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

Someone, Else, Imagine

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
Tony Gilroy

Time, Crazy, Different

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
Tony Gilroy

Writing, Remember, College

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

Career, Early, Written

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
Tony Gilroy

Emotions, Break, Spell

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
Tony Gilroy

Knowing, Action, Supposed

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
Tony Gilroy

Freedom, Movies, Fun

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

Talk, Behind, Coming

I prefer writing originals.
Tony Gilroy

Writing, Prefer, Originals

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

Time, Writing, Free

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, Recognized, Extremely

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
Tony Gilroy

Young, Used, Organized

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.
Tony Gilroy

Life, Two, Enough

I worked for a lot of directors.
Tony Gilroy

Worked, Directors

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.
Tony Gilroy

Off, Round, Button

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

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

Done, Filmmaking, Episodic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 11, 1956

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