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
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This is the year that Hollywood rewarded rule-breakers.
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None of us expected it. You hope, but we had a tiny picture...this was a year when Hollywood rewarded rule breakers.
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Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
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I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
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There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.
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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.
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My mind was just mush. I was shocked.
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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.
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My questions were all about things that bothered me personally. I wanted to explore how good people can do bad things.
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I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
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The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.
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I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.
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My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.
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In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.