Paul Greengrass quotes
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“Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.”
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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.”
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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 GreengrassSource : "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 GreengrassSource : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
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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 GreengrassSource : "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.
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“You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.”
-- Paul GreengrassSource : "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 GreengrassSource : "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.
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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 GreengrassSource : 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 GreengrassSource : "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 GreengrassSource : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
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“The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.”
-- Paul GreengrassSource : 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 GreengrassSource : "NYFF: Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass Talk Captain Phillips". Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 29, 2013.
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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 GreengrassSource : "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.
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