English - Director | August 13, 1955 -
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
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Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.
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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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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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To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
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Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.
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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.
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