Paul Haggis
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"Paul Edward Haggis" is a Canadians/Canadian screenwriter, Film producer/producer, and film director/director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series. Among his achievements are screenwriter and producer credits for consecutive Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture winners, 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash (2004 film)/Crash, the latter of which he also directed.

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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.

[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.

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.

I can't imagine anyone else in that role now.

It will be fascinating to explore.

He's becoming a hard guy to get hold of, ... You could see it starting with the Crash reviews. And then Hustle & Flow. I couldn't be happier for him.

Nobody leaves this movie unscathed.

Got the point and let me go back the next day. I finished the film much healthier than I had been two weeks before.

When you finish a movie like that, you?re so raw.