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.Collection: Views
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Real
Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.Collection: Film
That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.Collection: Challenges
The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Cutting