Paul Greengrass

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

One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe.

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

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.