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  • Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

    "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.
  • I love IMAX when it works right.

    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

    "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.
  • 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.

    Writing   Tunnels   Wind  
  • No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

    "Interview:'Michael Clayton' director Tony Gilroy. The screenwriter discusses his directorial debut". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.
  • I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

    "Tony Gilroy, ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Writer & Director, On Continuing The Franchise Without Matt Damon". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.
  • I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • 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.

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

    Scripts   Imagine   I Can  
    "Interview: Michael Clayton Director Tony Gilroy". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.
  • I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

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

    Used   Young   Organized  
    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

    Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.
  • I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

  • Different people work different ways.

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

    Animal  
    "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.
  • I prefer writing originals.

    "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.
  • Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

    Cost   Film   Certain  
  • I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

    Knowing   Action   Ifs  
    "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
  • No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

    Writing   Helping   Teach  
    "Interview: Michael Clayton Director Tony Gilroy". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 12, 2007.
  • I worked for a lot of directors.

    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

    Movie   Thinking   People  
    "Tony Gilroy, ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Writer & Director, On Continuing The Franchise Without Matt Damon". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.
  • I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

    Jobs   Taken   Want  
  • A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

    Way   Surprise   Audience  
    "Twister" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2009.
  • You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

    Trying   Way   Bigs  
    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • You change or you hide your head in the sand.

    Sand  
    "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.
  • Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

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

    Emotion   Break   Spells  
  • But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

    "Writer/Director Tony Gilroy Talks THE BOURNE LEGACY, Deleted Scenes, the Franchise Going Forward, His Thoughts on IMAX and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 12, 2012.
  • The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

    "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
  • Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

    Play   Directors   Actors  
    "Talking With Tony Gilroy". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.
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