You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
Paul HaggisThere's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.
Paul HaggisWhat happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.
Paul HaggisI was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.
Paul Haggis