Paul Schrader Quotes - Page 2

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• Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to peoplewith money and say I don't care about art, all I care about iscommerce; all I really want to do is make money.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Lying, Care

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• That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

  Paul Schrader

  Disposition, Come Up, Situation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

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  Character, Thinking, Symbolism

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• You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

  Paul Schrader

  God, Blessing, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Jesus". "The Last Temptation of Christ", 1988.

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• Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

  Paul Schrader

  Black And White, Long, Clubs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The best advice is essentially that thing in the back of your mind that you really aren't sure of, and when you start to hear other people bring up the same concerns, you say, "Okay, let's address that."

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  People, Advice, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

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  Communication, Different, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

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  Fun, Contradiction

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

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  Events, States, Taxi

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• I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage.

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  Stars, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

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  Destiny, One Direction, Choices

  "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

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  Doctrine, Arguing, Driven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the animals come out at night.

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  Animal, Night

  "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", 1976.

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• I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

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  Book, Taken, Columbia

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• I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

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  People, Generations, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

  Paul Schrader

  Struggle, Our World, Hung

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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