Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing.… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?' — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more,… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How far would… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I found two true stories. One was in 2003. One was the beginning of 2004. I decided to meld them. Richard Davis' story which… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced,… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
