Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised,… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
