You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, w…

- Paul Greengrass

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need…

- Paul Greengrass

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

- 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

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 linear.

- 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 I think we need to have t…

- Paul Greengrass

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 tru…

- Paul Greengrass

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

- Paul Greengrass