Latest Paul Schrader Quotes from Interviews

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• When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.

  Paul Schrader

  Fighting, Reality, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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."

  Paul Schrader

  People, Advice, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Paul Schrader

  Communication, Different, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

  Paul Schrader

  Weather, Giving, Design

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• One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

  Paul Schrader

  Problem, Filmmaking, Solve

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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

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

  Paul Schrader

  Settling, Viewers, Get Ahead

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• Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

  Paul Schrader

  Black And White, Interesting, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.

  Paul Schrader

  Generations, Broke, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

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

  Paul Schrader

  People, Generations, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Paul Schrader

  Stars, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Paul Schrader

  Fun, Contradiction

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Paul Schrader

  Drama, Heart, Character

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

  Paul Schrader

  Believe, Normal, Ends

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Awake, Bores

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

  Paul Schrader

  Bored, Boring, Awake

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com