90 Quotes by Paul Greengrass

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.

Is it word-for-word the same? No, of course it's not.

They all saw it, and they all approve of it.

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.

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.

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?

It's humbling to bring this film to New York. It's humbling and necessary and appropriate.

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.

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.