Paul Haggis Quotations | Page 2

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

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.'

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.

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

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.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.