Paul Haggis quotes
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“I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.”
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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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“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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“What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.”
-- Paul HaggisSource : Source: collider.com
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“We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.”
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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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“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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“Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.”
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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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“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 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.”
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“I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.”
-- Paul HaggisSource : "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.
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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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“Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.”
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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.”
-- Paul HaggisSource : "The Apostate". www.newyorker.com. February 2011.
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“I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.”
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“A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.”
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“We crash into each other just so we can feel something”
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“Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.”
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