Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrassis an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. His early film Bloody Sunday won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films he has directed include three in the Bourne action/thriller series: The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Jason Bourne; United 93, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director, and received an...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 August 1955
cutting scripts film
There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.
writing cutting different
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.
command control faced inside military people pressures understand
I wanted to make it feel real, like you were there, so you would understand the pressures people faced inside the air-traffic control rooms, inside the military command center, inside that airplane.
bring humbling necessary
It's humbling to bring this film to New York. It's humbling and necessary and appropriate.
conflict inhabit ourselves people react worldwide
They were the first people to inhabit the post-9/11 world. These were the first to react to the worldwide conflict we find ourselves in today.
inhabit people
They were the first people to inhabit the post-9/11 world.
fashion hope necessary serious
They'll see it's been made in a responsible fashion by serious people. And I hope they will see it's making a contribution to a very necessary debate.
achievement believe capture essential expect measure ordinary people stars
We expect our movie stars to do extraordinary things, because they're iconic. But to capture the measure of achievement of those people on that airplane, it was essential to believe they were as ordinary as you or I.
course
Is it word-for-word the same? No, of course it's not.
approve saw
They all saw it, and they all approve of it.
bring inspiring people respect subject
Some people will not want to see the film. People find the subject too hard. I respect that. Remembering is painful. But it can be inspiring and it can bring wisdom.
confidence details inner shows sort
Sometimes, those sort of details are not what shows up on screen. It's about what it does to the inner confidence of the actor.
discussion provoke
If in this film, it can provoke a little more discussion about where we've come from on 9/11 and where we're going to. Then I'll be proud.
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There were two stages of it. The sort of staggering enormity of that second plane - when you realized that this was obviously deliberate, and then all of a sudden, a lull sort of sank in for 20 minutes or half an hour. And then that really frightening thing when the Pentagon got struck. You just thought, where is this gonna end?