Tony Gilroy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

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

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

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

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

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

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

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

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

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

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of ... when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

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

I love IMAX when it works right.

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

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

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

I worked for a lot of directors.

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

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

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

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

Different people work different ways.