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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!
- Paul Schrader
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#Never
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'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
- Paul Schrader
#Did
#Events
#My Own
#Own
#State
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
- Paul Schrader
#Act
#Best
#Interesting
#Own
#People
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
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#Picture
#Struggle
#Success
#World
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.
- Paul Schrader
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#Interesting
#People
#Play
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.
- Paul Schrader
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#Creativity
#Doors
#Say
#Will
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.
- Paul Schrader
#Analyze
#Critic
#Criticism
#Possible
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
- Paul Schrader
#Be Happy
#Happy
#Me
#Unhappy
#Why
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.
- Paul Schrader
#About
#I Was Raised
#Many
#Things
#Wrong
Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
- Paul Schrader
#Illusion
#Understand
#You
#Yourself
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.
- Paul Schrader
#Capitalism
#Church
#Movies
#Pay
#See
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