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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
- Dan Gilroy
#Candle
#Colors
#Digital
#Great
#Night
A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
- Dan Gilroy
#Care
#Extraordinary
#Human
#Just
#People
I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.
- Dan Gilroy
#About
#Employment
#People
#World
#Young
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
- Dan Gilroy
#Almost
#Becoming
#More
#Now
#Us
When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
- Dan Gilroy
#Brain
#Place
#Research
#Trying
#Turn
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
- Dan Gilroy
#Better
#Change
#Character
#Ideas
#World
It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
- Dan Gilroy
#Film
#Point
#Reality
#Respect
#Voice
Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
- Dan Gilroy
#Country
#Important
#Media
#Rebellion
We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
- Dan Gilroy
#Fierce
#Filter
#People
#Race
#Television
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
- Dan Gilroy
#Career
#Get
#Sense
#Vision
#Your
I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
- Dan Gilroy
#Care
#Human Dignity
#Respect
#World
A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
- Dan Gilroy
#Cement
#Downtown
#Lot
#Times
In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
- Dan Gilroy
#Back
#Club
#Coming
#Drive
#Something
I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
- Dan Gilroy
#Alone
#Live
#No Sense
#Time
#Work
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
- Dan Gilroy
#Everything
#Fountain
#He
#True
#Wisdom
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