Paul Haggis Quotes

September 16, 2005 - In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter , newly hired Casino Royale re-write scribe Paul Haggis dropped some brief but revealing tidbits about the next James Bond installment. It's going to be good, ... We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 no Q, no gadgets.

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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.

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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

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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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You can't be afraid to disagree with everybody. You have to be very comfortable.

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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.

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Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

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In an artfully drawn-out chase sequence - one of Haggis's personal highlights - Hitchcock pushes our mixed feelings about the central characters even further. Bruno is rushing to plant Guy's lighter at the murder scene (with Guy in hot pursuit) when he accidentally drops it down a drain. Hitchcock's camera lingers voyeuristically over him as he struggles to retrieve it. I'll never forget watching Bruno squeeze his hand down through that metal grate, ... Seeing the sweat forming on his brow, feeling his pain as the lighter remains just beyond reach.

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We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28. It's very difficult to think of new ways of blowing things up. It's the journey that's the thing--finding a new journey for the character.

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

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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.

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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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I miss my mother very, very much.

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I knew if we did it right it would get under people's skin, and they would react one way or the other. So it doesn't bother me when people say they hate it for this reason or that. It got to them, it made them look at something they would rather not have looked at, so the movie succeeded, at least for me.

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As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

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We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go 'Oh yeah Watch this'.

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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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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.

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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.

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They're talking to three to four girls right now. Every week I read there's a new Bond girl, and I call them and they say, No, you idiot.

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This is the year that 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 all came from the time in the '70s when it actually snowed in Los Angeles. I figured, you know what If it can snow in Los Angeles, anything is possible. Maybe there's actually hope for us.

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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

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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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