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You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

Paul Greengrass

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Paul Greengrass
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Television Director
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Rigidity
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