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 want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.