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.

I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.