159 Quotes by Paul Haggis

I’ve lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We’re just shoving them under the carpet.

As a general rule, I don’t plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

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

You’d be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they’ve got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

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.

I try not to think of actors as I’m writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they’ve already done.

We’re trying to reinvent Bond. He’s 28 – no Q, no gadgets.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that’s the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.