Paul Greengrass

“I spent my 20s making film after film, often in very adverse conditions. You'd fly back from somewhere - Beirut, the Falklands, South Africa - on Saturday, and you'd have 24 hours to cut you...”

“I think there's something about a character facing the huge problems and challenges of the contemporary world and meeting them with - head on with courage, allowing for darkness and mistake,...”

“Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man...”

“My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like auth...”

“Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.”

“Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.”

“Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.”

“I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is...”

“Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, about the world, about masculinity, about power, about the empire that I don't share. Quite...”

“I don't storyboard like some. I mean, all directors are different. I plan meticulously - really meticulously.”

“What attracts me to Bourne's world is that is a real world, and I think I'm most comfortable there. But I come to a Bourne movie to have fun as a filmmaker, to strut my stuff, and that's par...”