English - Director | August 13, 1955 -
In my little imperfect way, what I'm trying to do is understand the world. As a filmmaker, you realize as you get older that each film is part of a dialogue you're having with yourself. That started when I was working in documentaries. And in a way, I've never deviated from it.
Paul Greengrass
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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.
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Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.
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I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!
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I just don't get on with institutions. I need simple relationships with people who believe in me.
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Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.
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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.
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Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.
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The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.
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My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
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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. 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.
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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.
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