Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you lea… - Paul Haggis
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you lea…
- Paul Haggis
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers. - Paul Haggis
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. - Paul Haggis
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world. - Paul Haggis
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA. - Paul Haggis
The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.
As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood. - Paul Haggis
As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness. - Paul Haggis
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t. - Paul Haggis
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me. - Paul Haggis
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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