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 would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.