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Paul Schrader Quotes
«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.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«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.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do? Time to go off and make another chair.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«It's an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, a real melodrama, which I wrote and directed and financed. Nobody paid me to do this film. If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«I don't know if he was stupid,»
Author: Paul Schrader
«I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?»
Author: Paul Schrader
«I don't believe that anymore but you certainly know that world. But I wasn't Catholic. It was slightly different. The metaphorical strength of that stuff, of those stories, whether it's stories from the Bible or stories from contemporary mythology like The Exorcist have enormous metaphorical weight.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«It's great when somebody comes at you and says, 'We have a big serious movie and we want to hire you because you're a serious person'. Particularly in today's world, when you spend so much of your time pretending that you're not.»
Author: Paul Schrader
«[Paul Schrader breaks into a wheezy cackle as he recalls a conversation he had recently with his fellow director, Robert Altman. As is the wont of two seasoned mavericks, they were discussing the cruel nature of Hollywood.] He was laughing, ... He said, 'Every time you think they've fucked you every way they can, they come up with a new way!'»
Author: Paul Schrader
«His gifts are now more social than sexual. He's this society walker who has his lady friends, and a boyfriend on the side.»
Author: Paul Schrader