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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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Paul Edward Haggis
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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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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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We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
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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.
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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 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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A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
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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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What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
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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 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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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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This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
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I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
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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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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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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 really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
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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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It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
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