Paul Greengrass Quotes

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

  Paul Greengrass

  Inspiring, Giving, Remember

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• I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.

  Paul Greengrass

  Editing, Trying, Shooting

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Drama, Responsibility, Reality

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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

  Paul Greengrass

  Firsts, Posts, Post Production

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Real, Drama, Acting

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• 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 linear.

  Paul Greengrass

  Views, Directors, Way

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

  Paul Greengrass

  Character, Giving, Trying

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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 I think we need to have that conversation now.

  Paul Greengrass

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• 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, you know what I mean, all that.

  Paul Greengrass

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

  Paul Greengrass

  Film, Made, Written

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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

  Paul Greengrass

  Challenges, Events, Fundamentals

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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

  Paul Greengrass

  Jobs, Actors, Divine

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• 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 the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

  Paul Greengrass

  Jobs, Journey, Skills

  "NYFF: Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass Talk Captain Phillips". Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 29, 2013.

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• The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

  Paul Greengrass

  Airplane, People, Aeroplanes

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• 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

  Writing, Cutting, Different

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• 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 that's never really been how I've seen it.

  Paul Greengrass

  Cutting, Scripts, Film

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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