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
son two house
I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?
jobs years two
You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.
two murder-mysteries relax
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax. And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.
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.
becoming crash guy happier hard hold hustle starting
He's becoming a hard guy to get hold of, ... You could see it starting with the Crash reviews. And then Hustle & Flow. I couldn't be happier for him.