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Paul Haggis is a renowned Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director who has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards and two Emmys. He is best known for writing and producing the Best Picture Oscar winners ‘Million Dollar Baby’ and ‘Crash’, the latter of which he also directed. Haggis has worked on various other acclaimed films and TV shows throughout his illustrious career.
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Paul Edward Haggisis a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Babyand Crashand the James Bond films Casino Royaleand Quantum of Solaceand co-creator of Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001), among others. Haggis is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner. He also assisted in the making of “We Are the World 25 for Haiti”. In November 2022, he was found liable in a civil trial which alleged he raped publicist Haleigh Breest, and was required to pay $10 million in damages.
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Paul Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television.
Paul Haggis is best known as the screenwriter and producer for the consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004) and ‘Crash’ (2005), the latter of which he also directed. He has also co-written other acclaimed films like ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ and the James Bond movies ‘Casino Royale’ and ‘Quantum of Solace’.
Paul Haggis is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner.
Paul Haggis was born on March 10, 1953.
In November 2022, Paul Haggis was found liable in a civil trial which alleged he raped publicist Haleigh Breest, and was required to pay $10 million in damages.
Paul Haggis is the creator of the television series ‘Due South’ and co-creator of ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’. He also assisted in the making of the charity single ‘We Are the World 25 for Haiti’.
11 Quotes by Paul Haggis
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The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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We give you characters we’d feel very comfortable judging, and then go: ‘Oh yeah? Watch this’.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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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 HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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Unless I’m really uneasy with what I’m writing, I lose interest very quickly.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it’s affected us and the world.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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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 leave the theatre.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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As a general rule, I don’t plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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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?
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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We’re trying to reinvent Bond. He’s 28 – no Q, no gadgets.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director
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I miss my mother very, very much.
Paul HaggisCanadian screenwriter, producer, and director