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11 quotes by Paul Schrader

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or cowrote screenplays for the Martin Scorsese classics Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ and has directed 18 feature films, including his 1982 remake of the horror classic Cat People, and critically acclaimed dramas American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Affliction (1997) and...
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Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it... →

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

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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.

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

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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

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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... →

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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.

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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!

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

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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... →

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The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if... →

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