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