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.
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.
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 writing men
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.
writing answers trouble
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
writing interest uneasy
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
writing contradiction humans
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
writing matter projects
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
writing thinking answers
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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.
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.
affected cinema discovered ends european playing
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
affect argue cause filmmaker love people seeking worst
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.
almost family kids paid pretend price
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.