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
antagonist both characters enriched influenced
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.
characters knowledge
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
absolutely characters fears partly recognize single work
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.
characters create damaged drawn easy empathetic good guy strive sympathy
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
finish
When you finish a movie like that, you?re so raw.
challenged dumbest either incredibly people reasons various
You either get the movie or you don't, and if you don't get it, it's just the dumbest movie of all time. Some people are really challenged by it. It makes them incredibly uncomfortable, I think, and they come up with various reasons why that's not their fault.
blowing difficult journey reinvent trying ways
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28. It's very difficult to think of new ways of blowing things up. It's the journey that's the thing--finding a new journey for the character.
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.
hair hoping point tiny twist view
I was hoping to do something to twist people's point of view just a tiny bit, to make them look at things just a hair differently.
bad bothered explore good people questions
My questions were all about things that bothered me personally. I wanted to explore how good people can do bad things.
mind
My mind was just mush. I was shocked.
anyone imagine role
I can't imagine anyone else in that role now.