I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product. Paul Haggis More Quotes by Paul Haggis More Quotes From Paul Haggis I miss my mother very, very much. Paul Haggis mother missing A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched. Paul Haggis unseen creative believe I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me. Paul Haggis institutions broken persons Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. Paul Haggis uneasy interest writing 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. Paul Haggis real writing character We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets. Paul Haggis gadgets trying I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery. Paul Haggis murder-mysteries relax two 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 there's a half dozen, that would be a big day. Paul Haggis actors would-be stories 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 guts audience film 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 facts-of-life grateful long The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA. Paul Haggis stereotype 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 insecure majority jobs 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 twelve iraq war There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always. Paul Haggis lots-of-money like-me guy 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 profit enough years When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures. Paul Haggis appeals threatened easy The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine. Paul Haggis boss towns long 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 untrustworthy bases trying If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you. Paul Haggis use matter believe I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers. Paul Haggis audience answers
