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Zitat des Tages von 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.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

Paul Schrader

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

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

Paul Schrader

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

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

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

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