Paul Haggis Quotes - Page 3

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• I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

  Paul Haggis

  Grateful, Long, Facts Of Life

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

  Paul Haggis

  Reality, Interesting, Trying

  "‘Show Me a Hero’ Director Paul Haggis on Collaborating with David Simon, Independence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2015.

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• 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

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• 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 of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.

  Paul Haggis

  Honor, Looks, Phrases

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• I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

  Paul Haggis

  Political, Tragedy, Stories

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• All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Insecure, Majority

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• When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

  Paul Haggis

  Easy, Appeals, Threatened

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• 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

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• There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

  Paul Haggis

  Guy, Like Me, Lots Of Money

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• 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, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

  Paul Haggis

  Years, Enough, Profit

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• If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

  Paul Haggis

  Trying, Untrustworthy, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Paul Haggis

  Film, Guts, Audience

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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