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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

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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

~Dan Gilroy

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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

~Dan Gilroy

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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

~Dan Gilroy

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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

~Dan Gilroy

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A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

~Dan Gilroy

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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

~Dan Gilroy

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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

~Dan Gilroy

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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.

~Dan Gilroy

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A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 24th, 1959

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