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I try not to think of actors ...

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

Walk through Santa Monica and...

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 64 quotes

I loved American filmmakers w...

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

I just asked myself, what pie...

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

You have to have empathy, kno...

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

'Crash' was incredibly person...

'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

I like to write about things ...

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

My one guiding rule for succe...

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

We all have these tendencies ...

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 64 quotes

Every 10 years, I know less a...

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

You don't make a film because...

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 64 quotes

You can't plan for people to ...

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for the 'In the Valley of Elah.' I knew they might not want to see it, but I still had to the movie; I felt very strongly about it. Wanting to keep telling a good story is what you want to do, a compelling story.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

'Crash' came from personal ex...

'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

I moved to Hollywood when I w...

I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

The wonderful thing about Cli...

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

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I just figure if you have a m...

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

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I was trying to talk about wh...

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'm such an antsy type of per...

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

The worst thing you can do to...

The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

I don't pay much attention to...

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Paul Haggis 64 quotes

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