Paul Greengrass

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

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.

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

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

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

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.