Paul Haggis Quotes
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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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You have to be careful of the advice you take.
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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.
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When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.
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We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.
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All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.
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I miss my mother very, very much.
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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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If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.
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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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The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.
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There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.
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As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.
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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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If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
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I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
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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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It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.
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I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.
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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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You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
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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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A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
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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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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 give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
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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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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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It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
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I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
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