Tony Gilroy Quotes

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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 above what you know about people.

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  Writing, People, Understanding

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

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  Writing, Helping, Teach

  "Interview: Michael Clayton Director Tony Gilroy". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.

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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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  Animal

  "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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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 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.

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  Writing, Tunnels, Wind

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• The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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  Nice, People, Philippines

  "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• 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.

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  Skills, People, Doing You

  Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Different people work different ways.

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  People, Way, Different

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• Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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  Ambiguity, Budgets

  "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

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  Lying, Ideas, Two

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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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  Way, Surprise, Audience

  "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.

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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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  Writing, Sketching, States

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I worked for a lot of directors.

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  Directors

  "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.

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

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  Jobs, Taken, Want

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

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  Movie, Thinking, People

  "Tony Gilroy, ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Writer & Director, On Continuing The Franchise Without Matt Damon". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

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  Sorry, Successful, Should

  "Interview:'Michael Clayton' director Tony Gilroy. The screenwriter discusses his directorial debut". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.

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

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  Cost, Film, Certain

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• I prefer writing originals.

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  Writing, Originals

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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

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  People, Rewriting, Behinds

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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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  Used, Young, Organized

  "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.

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

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  Play, Directors, Actors

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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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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  Moving, Community, World

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

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  Scripts, Imagine, I Can

  "Interview: Michael Clayton Director Tony Gilroy". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.

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

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  Crazy, Different, Levels

  "Tony Gilroy, ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Writer & Director, On Continuing The Franchise Without Matt Damon". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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

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  Writing, College, Remember

  "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.

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