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Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.

~Paul Greengrass

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Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

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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 knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images.

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

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In 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.

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The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

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Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

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To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

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With a franchise movie, it's got to turn the wheels of the industry, and the studio has to have them. So you start with a release date. They say we're going to make a new 'Bourne' film, and it comes out summer of X. Then they start on a script, and invariably, the script is not ready in time.

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In my little imperfect way, what I'm trying to do is understand the world. As a filmmaker, you realize as you get older that each film is part of a dialogue you're having with yourself. That started when I was working in documentaries. And in a way, I've never deviated from it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: August 13th, 1955

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