Paul Schrader Quotes
- I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
- The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
- The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
- Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
- 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.
- Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.
- 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…
- 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…
- I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
- 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…
- 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…
- People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
- 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.
- All the animals come out at night.