Paul Greengrass

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

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.

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

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.