Quotes by Dan Gilroy - Page 1

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Enormous
Tim
Tim Burton
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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Freed
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I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.
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Direct
Scripts
Wanted
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
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Cement
Downtown
Freeways
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A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
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Encompass
Label
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Communicate
Strong Desire
World Me Feel
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Convince
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A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.
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Opportunity
Giving
Vision
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
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Vision
Gives
Mine
Realize
Script
Truly
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Frequent
Images
Presented
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Vision Look Way
Distinct
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Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
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Brilliant
Fascinated
Fountain
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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Character
Cities
Every Night
Los Angeles
Night
Shooting
Angeles
Cast
Los
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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Earthquakes
Fog
Lions
Mountain
Spirit
Wilderness
Oceans
Physical
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
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Imagery
Visual
Connection
Integral
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The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
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Thank God
Love God Family
Choice
Degree
Unlike
No Choice
Thank
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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Insane
Nicole
Further
Nicole Kidman
Uses
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I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Bleak
Employment
Heard
Millions
Prospects
World People Young
Facing
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Young People
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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Ocean
Miles
Stunned
Thirty
Mountains
Valley
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I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
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Alone
Eight
Fog
Hours
My Time
Seven
Subconscious
Vague
Week
Alone Time Work
Days
Alone Work Time
Sort
Spend
No Sense
Room
Sense
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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Drive
Club
Coyote
Encounter
Lean
Los
Sudden
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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Emotion
Extraordinary
Manipulate
Degree
Understands
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Desert
Los Angeles
Vertical
Angeles
Los
Oceans
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Flawed
Taxi
Box
Driver
Films
Taxi Driver
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Response
Tape
Yellow
Accident
Official
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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
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Photographer
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I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'
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Code
Discretion
Sound
Words
Good People Words
Tv
Advised
Announcer
Good Words People
Good People Sound
Says
Too Many People
Viewer
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Bowling
Columbine
Narrative
Selling
Michael
Moore
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Intrigued
Logos
Television News
Watched
Burn
Corner
Right Hand
Upper
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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Dissemination
Horrific
Impacts
Inform
Negatively
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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Messages
Prominent
Change Character World
Arc
Commissioned
Creates
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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Screenwriting
Scripts
Vision
Credits
Dissimilar
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Cinema
Commonplace
Escapism
Relevance
Superhero
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Entirely
Spectacle
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It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
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Yeah
Director
Charge
Medium
Reach
Ultimately
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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Subconscious
Time Moment Walk
Directing
Noticed
Requires
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
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Conscious
Deeper
Elements
Subconscious
Tapping
Darker
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
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Narrative
Rebellion
Revolt
Transmit
Important People Will
Extraordinarily
First Things
People Important Will
Powerful Tool
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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Satisfaction
Understood
Watched
Enough Long Me
Tremendous
Enjoying
Learner
Reached
Slow
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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Los Angeles
Primal
Spread
Survival
Angeles
Dish
Embraces
Inhabitants
Los
Portrayed
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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Candle
Cheaper
Digital
Miles
Mobile
Night
Beat
Seen
Colors
Extraordinarily
Lights
Real Reason
Variations
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Employment
Enormous
Globalization
Meaningful
Part Time
Sea
Sea Change
Underpaid
Workforce
Change Work Hope
Reduced
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Bottom
Bottom Line
Competing
Dignity
Human Dignity
Regard
Respect World People
Increasingly
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Becoming
Blogs
Editors
Graphic
Race
Rely
Stations
Television
Tv
Filter
Images
Incredibly
Ratings
Supply
Thin
Websites
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
Dan Gilroy / Screenwriter
Acknowledge
Human Beings
Beings
Clearly
Exist
Explore
Nuances
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