Paul Haggis Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.”

“Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.”

“The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.”

“There's nothing more painful than writing.”

“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.”

“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?”

“A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'”

“All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.”

“'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'”