Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroyis 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. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. Gilroy wrote and directed Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 September 1956
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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 used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
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.
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
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.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
I love IMAX when it works right.
No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.
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.