Quotes by Tony Gilroy - Page 1

I prefer writing originals.
Tony Gilroy / Screenwriter
Originals
Writing
Prefer
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I worked for a lot of directors.
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I love IMAX when it works right.
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Different people work different ways.
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Different
Different Ways
People
Way
Different People
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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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Ambiguity
Budgets
Budget
Rises
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You can't teach someone to be imaginative.
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Imaginative
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You change or you hide your head in the sand.
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Sand
Hide
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I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
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I Can
Imagine
Scripts
Directing
Script
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I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
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Jobs
Taken
Want
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No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
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Should
Sorry
Successful
Screenwriter
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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
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Nice
People
Philippines
Extraordinarily
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No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.
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Helping
Teach
Writing
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I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
Tony Gilroy / Screenwriter
Crazy
Different
Different Levels
Levels
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I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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Action
Ifs
Knowing
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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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Certain
Cost
Film
Round
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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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Application
College
Remember
Writing
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I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
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Organized
Used
Young
Extremely
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The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
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Traits
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I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.
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Button
Round
Rewarded
Trained
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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
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Behinds
People
Rewriting
People Talk Never
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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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Audience
Reversal
Surprise
Way
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When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
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I Am Start People
Project
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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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Free State
Sketching
States
Writing
Lot
Free
Beginning
State
Spend
In The Beginning
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If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
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Movie
Actors
Filmmaking
People
Thinking
Episodic
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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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Community
Corporate
Corporate World
Intelligence Community
Moving
World
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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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Break
Emotion
Sentimentality
Spells
Spell
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Tony Gilroy / Screenwriter
Actors
Developing
Directors
Play
Percentage
Screenwriter
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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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Bunch
Careers
Scripts
More Much Than
Gotten
Produced
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Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
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Animals
Exempt
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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Thinking
Writing
Years
Extremely
Recognized
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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 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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Ideas
Lying
Pretence
Suspicious
Two
Whole
Life Love Work
Based
Between
Idea
Lie
Programmed
Spies
Two People
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The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.
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Time Your Me
Time Me Beginning
Ending
In The Beginning
Main Thing
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I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.
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Big Movie
Life Enough My Life
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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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Bigs
Trying
Way
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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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People
Understanding
Writing
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Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
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Corporations
Court
Bad Ones
Feudal
Good Ones
Societies
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I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.
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Behaviour
Candy
Rooted
Effect
Extra
Violating
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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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High Speed
Intense
Rushing
Scene
Shopping
Tunnels
Wind
Writing
Director
Chair
Picking
Pull
Sit
Tunnel
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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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Doing You
People
Skills
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