Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggisis a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners, 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash, the latter of which he also directed...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth10 March 1953
CityLondon, Canada
CountryCanada
audience
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
clint guess
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
ask director secure threatened
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
bad best films good pay reviews
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
hand inside people twist
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
celebrity deal directors hard modicum time
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
compelling felt good knew might movies people run strongly telling theater valley wanting
You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.
figure trying
We were so shocked. I'm still trying to figure out if we actually got this.
anyone imagine role
I can't imagine anyone else in that role now.
audiences course guilty playing
Of course I feel guilty about manipulating the audience, playing on their preconceptions in that way, ... But that's my job.
expected none opened tiny wrong
None of us expected this. We had a tiny picture, and we opened at the wrong time.
expected hollywood none rewarded rule tiny year
None of us expected it. You hope, but we had a tiny picture...this was a year when Hollywood rewarded rule breakers.
finish
When you finish a movie like that, you?re so raw.