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Paul Schrader [1946-0] American

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Director, Screenwriter

Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and Bringing Out the Dead.

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Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.		101
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.		102
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.	Movies	103
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?		104
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.		105
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.		106
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.		107
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.		108
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!		109
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.		110
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.		111

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