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 face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours. — 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
