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Tony Gilroy [1956-0] American

Rank: 102
Writer, Screenwriter

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the first four films of the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films, and directed the fourth film of the franchise.

Intelligence

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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?		101
You change or you hide your head in the sand.		102
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.		103
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 there are good ones and bad ones.		104
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.	Intelligence	105
Different people work different ways.		106
The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.		107
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.		108
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.		109
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.		110
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.		111
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.		112
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.		113
I worked for a lot of directors.		114
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.		115
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.		116
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.		117
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.		118
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.		119
I prefer writing originals.		120
I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.		121
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.		122
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.		123
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.		124
I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.		125
I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.		126
I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.		201
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.		202
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.		203
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.		204
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.		205
You can't teach someone to be imaginative.		206
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.		207
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.		208

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