Top 53 Quotes by Paul Haggis

About Paul Haggis

These are some quotes by Canadian author Paul Haggis Director, who was born on March 10, 1953.

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.

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.

Paul Haggis

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

Paul Haggis

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Paul Haggis

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Paul Haggis

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

Paul Haggis

I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally.

Paul Haggis

'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.'

Paul Haggis

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

Paul Haggis

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

Paul Haggis

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Paul Haggis

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