159 Quotes by Paul Haggis

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We think we know what’s right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented – the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

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.

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.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it’s affected us and the world.

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

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.

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...