Dan Gilroy Quotes
A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.
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By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
