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Paul Haggis Biography

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), the latter of which he also directed. He is the creator of the television series Due South and the co-creator of Walker, Texas Ranger. He is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner.

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As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

Eastwood, Know, Knows, Think, Thinking, You Think You Know

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.

Deciding, Developing, Independence, Independent, Team, Tell

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Answers, Questions, Thinking, Writers, Writing

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

America, Hope, Our Words, Represents, Support, World

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

Audience, Gnawing, Pictures, Ready

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

Passionate, Reading, Thinking, Torturing, Writing

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.

Actors, Half, Left, Stories, Story, Would Be

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

Braces, Communism, Kids, Look, People, Wife

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.

Film, Political, Stories, Story, Tell, Tragedy

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

Couldnt, Four, Know, Thirty, Years

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

Mean, Love Is, Years, Identify, Lived, Canadian

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

Answers, Like, Questions, Trouble, Write, Writing

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Appeal, Appeals, Easy, Natures, Threatened

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.

Answer, Invaded, Iraq, Twelve, War

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.

Live, Right Now, Talk, Trying, World

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Blindness, Excessive, Pride, Think, Thinking

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.

Actors, Already, Think, Thinking, Trying, Writing

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.

Come, Facts, Home, Men, Scarred, Under

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.

Enough, Good, Interesting, Reality, Thing, Trying

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.

Blue, Make, Political, Right, Society, War

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