Quotes By Tony Gilroy
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
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
Tony Gilroy
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
Tony Gilroy
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
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
Tony Gilroy
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Tony Gilroy
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
Tony Gilroy
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
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
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
Tony Gilroy
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
Tony Gilroy
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.
Tony Gilroy
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
Tony Gilroy