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
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.
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.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
I prefer writing originals.
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.
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
I worked for a lot of directors.