Tony Gilroy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.”

“You change or you hide your head in the sand.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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