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. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
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.… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious,… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
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. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
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… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Tony Gilroy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/207/tony-gilroy-16296_apartment_what-you-need-to-know-to-direct-a-movie_353572.jpg)
