Paul Haggis Quotes
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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Look for the answer inside your question.
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You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.
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You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
