Paul Haggis Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.

  Paul Haggis

  Country, War, Responsibility

• I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Blue, Political

• Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Iraq, Twelve

• This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Men, Next

• Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

  Paul Haggis

  Daughter, War, Son

• I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Long Ago, Car

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