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.
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it! - Paul Schrader
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
- Paul Schrader
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 screenp… - Paul Schrader
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 screenp…
Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you. - Paul Schrader
Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.
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 intere… - 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 intere…
There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laug… - Paul Schrader
There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laug…
Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time. - Paul Schrader
Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.
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 he… - Paul Schrader
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 he…
There's no escape. I'm God's only man. - Paul Schrader
There's no escape. I'm God's only man.
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. - Paul Schrader
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
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