Biography

Directed 3 actors in Oscar nominated performances: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton. Swinton won for her performance in Michael Clayton (2007).

Brother-in-law of Rene Russo.

Good friends with Steven Soderbergh and William Goldman.

Older brother of John Gilroy and Dan Gilroy.

Son of Frank D. Gilroy.

If you want to stay in cinema, you either have to go very very big or very very small or if you want to go into the movie business that I thought I was leading myself towards, you have to go into television in America now, which is probably the best stories and the best acting and the most interesting material -- a lot of it's on television.

[on the process of screen-writing] They pay for a couple of week to come dig some holes in the ground. When you start digging, sometimes there's nothing there. And sometimes, you get hot.

The movie business has fundamentally changed, as anybody who's got their eyes open knows, and it's never changing back. I don't even know if it should. And in this new movie environment, if you want to play with a larger audience, you have to find something that interests you and that interests them.

[on film-making] I am very preparatory. But this is like having kids or something: if you knew what you were into from the start, you'd never do it. But then you fall in love a little bit more each day, and you keep marching forward and every day is fun. As long as you don't look at the whole thing at once.

In general, the movies that I like have a singular voice. You get some really strong point-of-view all the way through. The more concentrated, consolidated and ballsy that it is, those are our best films. And there are anomalies along the way, but in general that's what works and the system does not nurture that. The system now doesn't respond too it, doesn't reward it, and is afraid of it.