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Tony Gilroy Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Someone Imagine Directing Script

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Great Yourself Waiting Building Come

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

Time Job You New Know Kind

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Believe Enough Movies Hollywood Even

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Spider Robinson

Stupidity Never Malice Explained

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

Good New York Talking Hands New Top

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

People Colors Go Inspiration Watch

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

Environment You True Write Your How

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Myself Others Books Observing Based

I'll watch something like 'Paranormal Activity,' 'The Shining,' or 'Rosemary's Baby,' and I love them, but then I watch 'The People Under the Stairs' or 'Candyman,' and they freak me out. It's weird because I don't where the line is. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I should watch and what I shouldn't.

Love People Me Baby Weird Stairs

This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

Opportunity Brooklyn Studying Coach

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

Joseph Pulitzer

Democracy Feet Way Matter Individual

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Time People Accomplishment Feel Now

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