Tony Gilroy Quotations

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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

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

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

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

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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

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.

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

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.