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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think I’m against all wars, but you’d have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons. Paul Haggis Read Quote
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that. Paul Haggis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic. Paul Haggis Read Quote
