Tony Gilroy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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 … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’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