Top 34 Quotes by Tony Gilroy

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

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

I worked for a lot of directors.

I prefer writing originals.

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.

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

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

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

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.