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 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.
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.
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 worked for a lot of directors.
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
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.