Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggisis a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners, 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash, the latter of which he also directed...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth10 March 1953
CityLondon, Canada
CountryCanada
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None of us expected it. You hope, but we had a tiny picture...this was a year when Hollywood rewarded rule breakers.
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This is my first time back to the Kodak Theatre since March 5 and I couldn't be prouder to be with all of you.
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This is the year that Hollywood rewarded rule-breakers.
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He's becoming a hard guy to get hold of, ... You could see it starting with the Crash reviews. And then Hustle & Flow. I couldn't be happier for him.
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I'm really thrilled to be doing this. This is something Bobby and I have been passionate about doing for a while.
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I'd only seen him as the hero or the foppish best friend - so I felt predisposed to like him. On the other hand, Granger's character is not particularly attractive at all - 1950s film heroes were supposed to be strong and confident, yet here is this rather tediously weak man, who allows himself to be pushed around by women.
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My mind was just mush. I was shocked.
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I avoided the phone this morning because this (the DGA nomination) was the one I knew I wouldn't get. When my friend called to tell me, I made him repeat the sentence three times.
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None of us expected this. We had a tiny picture, and we opened at the wrong time.
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Of course I feel guilty about manipulating the audience, playing on their preconceptions in that way, ... But that's my job.
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Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
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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.
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A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'
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I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.