Acting Quote by Paul Greengrass

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

— Paul Greengrass

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

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

— Paul Greengrass

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

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

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

— Paul Greengrass

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

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

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

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

— Paul Greengrass

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

— Paul Greengrass

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…

— Paul Greengrass