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Screenwriter PAUL HAGGIS: Tricks of the Trade

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Uploaded by on Apr 18, 2008

Acclaimed writer-director Paul Haggis has been a fixture of television and film for over 25 years. In this wide-ranging interview, the Oscar-winning co-screenwriter, director, and producer of Crash (Best Picture 2005) discusses a three-decade career that led from writing for sitcoms like Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life to his breakthrough screenplay for Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture 2004). Haggis's matter-of-fact stories of navigating the entertainment industry are an indelible primer for how to manage the screenwriting life, make a successful transition from TV to film, develop a strong story and characters, pitch an idea, and surmount Hollywood's more frustrating obstacles.

This video is an excerpt from the full interview, available on DVD at TheDialogueSeries.com .

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  • The interviewer irritates me. STOP INTERRUPTING!

  • Amen. or it might be the editing. but even in a continuous clip, it's "right right right right." truly necessary?

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  • @benniquaid he's fake, and also very uncharming

  • I want to beat that interviewer with a stick. He's not listening to his answers at all!!!

  • well hey all, at least he brought us a quality interview! Maybe he is just nervous. I didn't find it a big deal. (the interviewer's approach).

  • That interviewer is an asshole. He rude and fake.

  • @aae72 - Then let him have his own interview.

    We tuned in to hear Haggis!

  • CAUTION! This is just a sales blurb for the "real" interview.

    Waste of time.

  • @JustSayBRo - Yeah, let him talk! He's the one we want to hear!

    Maybe the interviewer got paid by the word.

  • SHUT THE FUCK UP INTERVIEWER

  • the interwier is a brake of my balls!!!! can he stop interrupting??he knows what he is talking about ??a w***** he should shut up and listen .

  • The interviewer is Mike De Luca, who ran production at New Line Cinema and is now a producer. So he actually does know what he's talking about.

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