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
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.
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 like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.
The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
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.
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
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.