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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.

Paul Haggis

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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
Film Director
Film Producer
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London
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Paul Edward Haggis
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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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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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We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.
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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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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 miss my mother very, very much.
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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.
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We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
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I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
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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.
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It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
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You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
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I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.
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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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When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
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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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If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.
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The wrong one will start saying things like withdraw with honor. We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.
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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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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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