Paul Haggis

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.

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.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

I don't like to get in front of people.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.