Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
London
Ontario
Paul Edward Haggis
Woman
Daughter
War
Intellectual
Young
Walk
Find
Longer
Monica
Matter
Lose
Santa
Trying
Walks
Concept
Men
Loses
Concepts
Somebody
Son
More quotes by Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
Paul Haggis
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
Paul Haggis
It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
Paul Haggis
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
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.
Paul Haggis
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
Paul Haggis
