A biography for Tony Gilroyhasn’t been written yet.
“The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.”
“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.”
“When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.”
“You change or you hide your head in the sand.”
“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.”
“I prefer writing originals.”
“A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.”
“If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.”
“The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.”
“Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.”
“Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.”
“Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.”
“I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.”
“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.”