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Paul Haggis Quotes

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.'

Paul Haggis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 10, 1953

Topics

Love Me Movies Everything Like Made

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.

Jillian Michaels

Life Strength Strong Self Better

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

Megyn Kelly

Good Hate Fun People Strong Need

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

Robert Smith

Limits Trying You Find Go Know

I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Love Creativity New Things Creative

Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.

Steve Clevenger

Night You Hustle I Can Try Ground

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

Spike Lee

People Me Choices You Consequences

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Simon Raven

Now Circumstances Behave Only Unreal

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Simon Van Booy

Man Me Control Survive Care Anxiety

For years, I have been writing that ultimately, if nothing else stops the Iranian nuclear project, such as the sanctions or a change in the regime in Tehran, then Israel itself will take action to destroy it from the air.

Ronen Bergman

Change Writing Action Nothing Will

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord Byron

Myself Sincere Been Motive Sole

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Clive James

Disco Dancing Steady Just Giant

Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV.

Rza

Growing Up Friends Growing Movies Up