Tony Gilroy

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

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

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

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

Different people work different ways.

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

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.

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

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.