Quotes from Tony Gilroy

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

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

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

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.

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