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.

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Running Time: 90 minutes

DVD Chapters Intro Show Me Where It's Funny If I Was This Screwed Up, Maybe Other People Were Too A Piece Of Hate Mail It's About Frying An Egg If You Let Them Help You, You Will Destroy Yourself Always Write Into The Problems Sex, Betrayal, and Unionism No Studio Is Gonna Make This Steven Who? Elvis, You Have No Taste He Died of a Broken Heart Five Pages a Day Jazz Under Stalin, Rock and Roll Under Khrushchev Dark, Horrible, Mean-Spirited Comedy