Paul Greengrass Quotes

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I am not an overprotective mother. I am independent and my daughter is independent too.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

The best thing that can happen in a relationship is when you are the same person you were before the relationship started. You are not hiding anything, and you still have a life of your own. The other best thing is sex - that is a super positive.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.