Tony Gilroy

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that…

— Tony Gilroy

I prefer writing originals.

— Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who…

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

I love IMAX when it works right.

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and…

— Tony Gilroy

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

— Tony Gilroy

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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…

— Tony Gilroy

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But…

— Tony Gilroy

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in…

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy

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…

— Tony Gilroy

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

— Tony Gilroy