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Tony Gilroy Quotes

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1956

Topics

Early Career More Than Much Later

I like being a boss.

Boss Being Like

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

Intelligence American Trying Security

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Day Book Thinking Living Write Trap

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

Doing Things Round Get Off Scenes

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.

Mitchel Resnick

Experience People Language New Group

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Business Alone Enough Long Right

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Life Great Short Landscape Why

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Breyten Breytenbach

Enemy Dancing Breath Steps Counting

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

Funny Love Great Cool Action Think

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Life History Action You Intellectual

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Arthur Koestler

Life Science Progress Desert Trail

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.

People Me Comedy You Why Understand

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