Tony Gilroy Quotes
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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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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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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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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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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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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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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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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
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No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.
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Different people work different ways.
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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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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
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You change or you hide your head in the sand.
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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 spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.