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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! — Paul Schrader

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me. — Paul Schrader

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid. — Kurt Schrader

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

I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization. — 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

Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect. — Dav Pilkey

There's no escape. I'm God's only man. — Paul Schrader

Jarrell was not so much a father ... as an affectionate encyclopedia. — Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

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

I'm gonna drive until my buddies can't lift me in the car, and I'll get some younger buddies if I need to. — Ken Schrader

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

its police system was arranged to deal with blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? — Paul Schrader

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

All men are sinners, Eleanor. The greater the man, the greater the sins. — Helena P. Schrader

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

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. — David James Duncan

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. — Paul Schrader

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end. — Paul Schrader

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. — Paul Schrader

I'm talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire. — Paul Russell

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young

All the animals come out at night. — Paul Schrader

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

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. — Paul Schrader

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art. — Paul Schrader