Tony Gilroy Quotes
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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?
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
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I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
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Different people work different ways.
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
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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.
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You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
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I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
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Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
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I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.