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 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.