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
reading writing thinking
It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.
long boss towns
The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.
mean love-is america
I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
america support our-words
The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.
writing thinking trying
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
awards people risk
I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.
years four thirty
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
trying world affected
I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
real writing character
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
character giving judging
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
trying gadgets
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
war iraq answers
Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.
believe creative unseen
A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
broken institutions persons
I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.