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" To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day. "
Paul Greengrass
Life
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" One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe. "
Paul Greengrass
Journey
Through
Think
" The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean. "
Paul Greengrass
Think
Know
Best
" 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. "
Paul Greengrass
Journey
Acting
End
" I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested. "
Paul Greengrass
Place
End
Theatre
" Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake. "
Paul Greengrass
Action
Through
Own
" I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake, but ultimately always moral. That's incredibly, incredibly inspiring, and that's honestly what I think. "
Paul Greengrass
Darkness
Mistake
Courage
" Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men. "
Paul Greengrass
Built
Ordinary
Career
" I just don't get on with institutions. I need simple relationships with people who believe in me. "
Paul Greengrass
Believe
People
Simple
" Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, about the world, about masculinity, about power, about the empire that I don't share. Quite the reverse. Whereas in Bourne, I think encoded is much more scepticism. There's an us and a them, and Bourne is an us, whereas Bond is working for them. "
Paul Greengrass
World
Values
Think
" It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental. "
Paul Greengrass
Time
Look
Funny
" I spent my 20s making film after film, often in very adverse conditions. You'd fly back from somewhere - Beirut, the Falklands, South Africa - on Saturday, and you'd have 24 hours to cut your film, and it would go out on Monday night. "
Paul Greengrass
Back
Fly
Monday
" It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment. "
Paul Greengrass
Lie
Moment
Powerful
" Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. "
Paul Greengrass
Remembering
Wisdom
Difficult
" The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional. "
Paul Greengrass
Airplane
Who
Were
" What attracts me to Bourne's world is that is a real world, and I think I'm most comfortable there. But I come to a Bourne movie to have fun as a filmmaker, to strut my stuff, and that's part of the fun of franchise filmmaking. "
Paul Greengrass
Think
World
Fun
" Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images. "
Paul Greengrass
Camera
Nature
Deep
" The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't believe in. Most importantly because it's unfair on that. It's not about you; it's just not fair on that project because you're doing it a profound disservice because you're not serving it - you're uncommitted, ultimately. "
Paul Greengrass
Believe
You
Mistake
" I always tell young film-makers, 'Find the song that only you can sing.' It doesn't just come to you. It's trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity. "
Paul Greengrass
Confidence
Identity
Disappointment
" Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine. "
Paul Greengrass
Searching
Matter
Style
" The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view. "
Paul Greengrass
Important
Find
Journey
" Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too. "
Paul Greengrass
Too
Bright
Horror
" I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so. "
Paul Greengrass
British
See
Myself
" Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now. "
Paul Greengrass
More
Going
Action
" Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique. "
Paul Greengrass
Learn
You
Camera
" I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent. "
Paul Greengrass
Seeing
I Am
Film
" Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing. "
Paul Greengrass
End
Childhood
Up
" 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
Now
People
Saying
" Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced. "
Paul Greengrass
The Right Thing
Think
Bad
" With a franchise movie, it's got to turn the wheels of the industry, and the studio has to have them. So you start with a release date. They say we're going to make a new 'Bourne' film, and it comes out summer of X. Then they start on a script, and invariably, the script is not ready in time. "
Paul Greengrass
Start
They Say
Time
" Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that. "
Paul Greengrass
Gamble
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Small