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.
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 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.
Paul GreengrassI 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.
Paul Greengrass