Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say. Paul Greengrass More Quotes by Paul Greengrass More Quotes From Paul Greengrass Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. Paul Greengrass inspiring remember giving 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 shooting editing trying 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 acting real drama 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 trying giving character 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 responsibility drama reality 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 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 You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first. Paul Greengrass post-production posts firsts 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 skills journey jobs 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 cutting different writing 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 scripts film cutting The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it. Paul Greengrass actors divine jobs That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals. Paul Greengrass events fundamentals challenges The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional. Paul Greengrass aeroplanes airplane people 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 talking people thinking It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life. Paul Greengrass movies about circus life Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress. Paul Greengrass you trust stress time When you think of the Cold War, there are various places where you imagine espionage. Espionage crossroads of the Cold War bring you to the backstreets of Berlin, or Vienna. Paul Greengrass think you cold war To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day. Paul Greengrass your day week life Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men. Paul Greengrass playing career ordinary men
