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Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. His early film Bloody Sunday won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include three in the Bourne action/thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Jason Bourne (2016); United 93 (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director, and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination, Green Zone (2010) and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004 he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won British Academy Television Award.

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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.

Editing, Trying, Shooting, Resources, Obviously

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.

Cut, Cutting, Film, Scripts, Shoot

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

Actors, Divine, Embody, Job, Jobs

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.

Character, Giving, Trying, Structure, Situational, Awareness

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

Inspiring, Giving, Remember, Wisdom, Difficult

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.

Directors, Filmmaking, Individual, Script, Views, Way

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

Airplane, People, Aeroplanes, Unexceptional

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.

Writing, Cutting, Different, Film, Write, Shoot

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.

Thinking, Talking, People, Conversation, Terrorism

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Challenges, Compress, Events, Face, Fundamentals

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.

Real, Drama, Acting, Tell, Conditions

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

Film, Life, Made, Say, Written

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.

Know, Mean, Performed, Real, Think, Thinking

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.

Drama, Responsibility, Reality, Necessary, Make, Authenticity

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

Firsts, Posts, Post Production, Talk, Unless, Sort

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.

Jobs, Journey, Skills, Course, Profound, Lines