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
pride thinking blindness
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
thinking you-think-you-know knows
As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.
jobs thinking brave
I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.
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.
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.
jobs thinking giving
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
writing thinking answers
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
bother hate knew looked people rather react reason
I knew if we did it right it would get under people's skin, and they would react one way or the other. So it doesn't bother me when people say they hate it for this reason or that. It got to them, it made them look at something they would rather not have looked at, so the movie succeeded, at least for me.
bobby passionate thrilled
I'm really thrilled to be doing this. This is something Bobby and I have been passionate about doing for a while.
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.
came hope los maybe snow time
This all came from the time in the '70s when it actually snowed in Los Angeles. I figured, you know what? If it can snow in Los Angeles, anything is possible. Maybe there's actually hope for us.
bond call four girls talking three week
They're talking to three to four girls right now. Every week I read there's a new Bond girl, and I call them and they say, No, you idiot.
affected great rather stake
As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.
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.