Quotes by Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

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

Events

States

Taxi

All the animals come out at night.

Animal

Night

All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That’s why you’re seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They’re desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

Book

Teacher

Writing

Anything that doesn’t bore me I think is doable because it’s keeping me awake.

Awake

Bores

Thinking

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.

Hung

Our World

Struggle

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.

Art

Care

Lying

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You’re always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that’s character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that’s even more character.

Character

Drama

Heart

Don’t ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Get Ahead

Settling

Viewers

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film ‘noir’, as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

Noir

Quality

White

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker… But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Art

Half

Writing

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Advice

Animal

Arguing

Art

Artist

Awake

Believe

Black And White

Blessing

Book

Bored

Bores

Boring

Broke

Care

Character

Choices

Church

Clock

Clubs

Columbia

Come Up

Communication

Contradiction

Creative

Creativity

Design

Destiny

Different

Directors

Dirty

Disposition

Doctrine

Doe

Doors

Drama

Driven

Duty

Ease

Emotional

Ends

Eternal

Events

Fighting

Film

Filmmaking

Fun

Generations

Get Ahead

Giving

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Quotes by Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

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

All the animals come out at night.

Anything that doesn’t bore me I think is doable because it’s keeping me awake.

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.

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.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You’re always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that’s character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that’s even more character.

Don’t ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film ‘noir’, as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker… But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

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