Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.
Paul GreengrassYou'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 GreengrassThere's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.
Paul GreengrassActing 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 Greengrass