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'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.