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Paul Haggis

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

— Paul Haggis love

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

— Paul Haggis character

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 self

I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.

— Paul Haggis men

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 fear

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

— Paul Haggis change

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

— Paul Haggis art

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

— Paul Haggis travel

I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.

— Paul Haggis men

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

— Paul Haggis questions

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 people

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

— Paul Haggis success

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 writing

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

— Paul Haggis character

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis knowledge

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

— Paul Haggis reason

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 emotion

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

— Paul Haggis love

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.

— Paul Haggis love

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 family

I miss my mother very, very much.

— Paul Haggis mother

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

— Paul Haggis time

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.

— Paul Haggis art

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

— Paul Haggis love

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

— Paul Haggis good

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, No no no nooo! You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone whos trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldnt.

— Paul Haggis love

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