Paul Haggis Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Would Be, Stories, Actors

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• I miss my mother very, very much.

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  Mother, Missing

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• We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

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  Crash, Feels

  "Crash (I)". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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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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  Jobs, Insecure, Majority

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• 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.

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  Two, Murder Mysteries, Relax

  "Director Paul Haggis Talks THIRD PERSON, Putting the Cast Together, How He’d Like to Do an Extended Version, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2014.

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• We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

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  Trying, Gadgets

  "Haggis Talks Casino Royale" By Stax, www.ign.com. September 16, 2005.

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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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  Character, Giving, Judging

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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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  Political, Tragedy, Stories

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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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  Real, Writing, Character

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• If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

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  Dream, Fighting, Boxing

  "Million Dollar Baby". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

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  Broken, Institutions, Persons

  "The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology" by Lawrence Wright, www.newyorker.com. February 14 & 21, 2011.

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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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  War, Men, Next

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

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  Writing, Interest, Uneasy

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• 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.

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  Honor, Looks, Phrases

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• 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.

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  Daughter, War, Son

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• I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which is the largest portion of this, a lot of the events are exactly as you saw, exactly what happened and the locations. Exactly as it was said with the chicken house and the strip club. Richard's parents were on the set and they'll tell you that the story is different than their son's. I was very concerned because I called them to say, 'You understand I'm fictionalizing this story?

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  Son, Two, Parent

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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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  War, Long Ago, Car

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• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

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  Country, War, Responsibility

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• I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.

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  War, Blue, Political

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• Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

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  War, Iraq, Twelve

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• I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

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  Grateful, Long, Facts Of Life

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

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  Team, Independent, Independence

  "‘Show Me a Hero’ Director Paul Haggis on Collaborating with David Simon, Independence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2015.

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

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  Years, Love And Relationship, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Trying, Untrustworthy, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Believe, Use, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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