Tony Gilroy Quotes

• You change or you hide your head in the sand.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You can’t teach someone to be imaginative.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• When I start something, I know people I am working with, it’s a project they’re interested in.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I’ve never taken a job on anything I didn’t want to do.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taken, Anything

• I’m trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I worked for a lot of directors.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Director

• 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.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I think what I’ve recognized over the years is that I’m very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I’m writing in the beginning and sketching.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I prefer writing originals.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prefer, Writing

• I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Tony Gilroy

  Topics in Uncategorized

Tony Gilroy (33)

Birth:	11th September, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Filmmaker, Screenwriter

Related Authors

• Derek Jarman
• Marilyn Manson
• George Roy Hill
• Griffin Dunne
• Frank Zappa
• David Hare
• Michael Ritchie
• John Milius
• Walter Lang
• Michael Ironside

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd January

Births

• 1906 - Robert E. Howard
• 1852 - Joshua Willis Alexander
• 1965 - Alan Cumming
• 1955 - Steven Adler
• 1949 - Stephen Ray Perry

Deaths

• 1798 - Lewis Morris
• 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1901 - Queen Victoria
• 1903 - Augustus Hare
• 2007 - Abbe Pierre