Quotes by Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Believe

Creative

Unseen

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.

Insecure

Jobs

Majority

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

Matter

Projects

Writing

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.

Interesting

Reality

Trying

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.

Brave

Jobs

Thinking

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.

Awards

People

Risk

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.

Murder Mysteries

Relax

Two

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

Answers

Audience

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

Answers

Trouble

Writing

I try not to think of actors as I’m writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they’ve already done.

Thinking

Trying

Writing

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Advice

America

Answers

Appeals

Audience

Awards

Be Careful

Believe

Blindness

Boss

Brave

Broken

Bunch

Careful

Character

Contradiction

Country

Crash

Creative

Easy

Facts

Feels

Film

Four

Guts

Happens

Home

Humans

Independence

Independent

Insecure

Institutions

Interest

Interesting

Jobs

Long

Love Is

Majority

Matter

Mean

Men

Mind

Multiple

Murder Mysteries

Our Words

People

Persons

Pride

Projects

Reading

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Quotes by Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

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

I try not to think of actors as I’m writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they’ve already done.

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