Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.

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Haggis began to work as a writer for television programs including The Love Boat One Day at a Time Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter producer and 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 Best Picture winners 2004's Million Dollar Baby and 2005's Crash the latter of which he also directed.