Tony Gilroy Quotes
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You change or you hide your head in the sand.
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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…
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I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
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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…
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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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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
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Different people work different ways.
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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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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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I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
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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 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 like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
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I prefer writing originals.
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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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