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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.
Paul Haggis
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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
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We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
Paul Haggis
Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.
Paul Haggis
It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
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You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
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United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.
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I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.
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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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Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said War is not the answer. That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.
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The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.
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As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
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I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
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I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.
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Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
Paul Haggis
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
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I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.
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A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
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I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.
Paul Haggis
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
Paul Haggis
