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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Been Career Change Employment Enormous Global Globalization Happening Hope Just Lot Meaningful Part-Time People Reduced Sea Think Underpaid Used Work Workforce I Think

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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

Topics: About Care Degree Emotion Extraordinary Human Just Manipulate People Point Someone Them Understands Who

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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Beauty Earthquakes Fog Great Lions Mountain Oceans Physical Spirit Wilderness

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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

Topics: Alone Days Eight Fog Go Hours Live Lot Most My Time No Sense Room Sense Seven Sort Spend Subconscious Time Vague Week Where Work

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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

Topics: Away Beat Candle Cheaper Colors Digital Extraordinarily Going Great Image Just Lights Miles Mobile Night People Pulling Real Real Reason Reason Seen Variations Why Would You

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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: About Any Being Box Characters Compared Driver Films Flawed Like Love Never One Of The Things Put Taxi Things I Love

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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

Topics: Angeles Animals Around Back Club Coming Coyote Drive Encounter Lean Los Los Angeles Something Sudden Very You

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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Almost America Cinema Coming Commonplace Direction Entirely Escapism Films Gone Had Make Out People Relevance Since Spectacle Superhero Them Vietnam Vietnam War War

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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Angeles Beauty Desert Find Forever Great Light Los Los Angeles Mountains Oceans Physical Place See Sense Vertical Which You

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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

Topics: About Around Aware Bleak Employment Facing Had Heard Millions People Prospects Tens Tens Of Millions Very Who World Young Young People

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 24th, 1959

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