Paul Greengrass Quotes

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

Paul Greengrass

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Too Much

• Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Middle East
  • Singapore

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Look

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • You
  • Humility

• It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Different
  • Age

• Web GIS provides us with a whole new window into our information through applications that are easy, 3D, and analytic. These applications are not just casual things, but reach deep into geographic knowledge and apply it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Information

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • America
  • Think
  • Community

• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Difficult

• I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Love
  • She
  • Risks

• I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Audience

• I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Perfect
  • Mom
  • Model

• How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Knowledge
  • Understand
  • Consider

• I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Knows
  • Theory
  • Relativity

• Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Audience
  • Authenticity
  • Filmmaking