Best 24 quotes of Tony Gilroy on MyQuotes

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

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

Different people work different ways.

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

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

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

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

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

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

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

I prefer writing originals.

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

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

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

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

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

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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.

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.

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.

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.