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Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.

~Paul Greengrass

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It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.

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

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I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!

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I just don't get on with institutions. I need simple relationships with people who believe in me.

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Studio people are bright. Empowering. They don't want to have to interfere creatively. That's their horror story, too.

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I always tell young film-makers, 'Find the song that only you can sing.' It doesn't just come to you. It's trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.

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Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

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Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.

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It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: August 13th, 1955

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