Paul Haggis Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Family, Soul, Work

  Tags in Myself

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

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Writers And Writing

• As a general rule, I don’t plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• I don’t think it’s the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Movies, Work

  Tags in Think

• 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.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Live

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

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful

• I miss my mother very, very much.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Missing

• Unless I’m really uneasy with what I’m writing, I lose interest very quickly.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judgment, Character

• We give you characters we’d feel very comfortable judging, and then go: ‘Oh yeah? Watch this’.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge

• We’re trying to reinvent Bond. He’s 28 – no Q, no gadgets.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying

Paul Haggis (11)

Birth:	10th March, 1953
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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