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• I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I’m supposed to.

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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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• 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 don’t like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

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• I don’t remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

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• I can’t imagine directing from someone else’s script.

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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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• Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

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• Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

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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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• Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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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 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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Tony Gilroy (33)

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

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