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
kodak march prouder since theatre time
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.
hollywood rewarded year
This is the year that Hollywood rewarded rule-breakers.
antagonist both characters enriched influenced
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.
challenged dumbest either incredibly people reasons various
You either get the movie or you don't, and if you don't get it, it's just the dumbest movie of all time. Some people are really challenged by it. It makes them incredibly uncomfortable, I think, and they come up with various reasons why that's not their fault.
antsy people type
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
near normal
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
guiding success
My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.
crash feels
We crash into each other just so we can feel something