Tony Gilroy Quotes

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

You can’t teach someone to be imaginative.

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it’s a project they’re interested in.

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.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there’s a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

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

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

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.

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

I think what I’ve recognized over the years is that I’m very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

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

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

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.