Paul Greengrass Quotes
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
Quotes to Explore
-
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
-
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
-
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
-
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
-
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
-
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
-
In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
-
As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
-
It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.
-
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
-
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
-
Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
-
Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
-
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
-
I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
-
I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
-
We're quite excited, because the audience went absolutely bananas. We did Paris (for the last DVD), and we thought we'd do Milan since we work there a lot, and it worked out really well.
-
I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
-
The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
-
Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.
-
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.
-
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
