'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment?… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To… — 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
