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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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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Different people work different ways.
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You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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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 never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
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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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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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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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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
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I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
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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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I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
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I love IMAX when it works right.
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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.