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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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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
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London
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Paul Edward Haggis
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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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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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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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I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
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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 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 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.
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We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
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Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
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I miss my mother very, very much.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
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It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
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