52 Quotes by Tony Gilroy

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.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

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

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.

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 like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

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

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.