Paul Greengrass Quotes

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

Paul Greengrass

• Childhood
• Loneliness
• Directing

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stars

• I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Doing

• Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Start
  • Grow

• I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Material

• I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Think
  • Space

• A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Horse

• 'The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • God

• Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Country
  • Society
  • Marriage

• A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • People
  • Band

• I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Giving
  • Daily

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Different

• If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Men
  • Birth
  • Inconsiderate

• I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Category
  • Screenplays
  • Completed

• My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Important
  • Money
  • Heart

• Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Childhood
  • Loneliness
  • Directing