Paul Schrader Quotes

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference. - Paul Schrader

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

The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do? Time to go off and make another chair. - Paul Schrader

It's great when somebody comes at you and says, 'We have a big serious movie and we want to hire you because you're a serious person'. Particularly in today's world, when you spend so much of your time pretending that you're not. - Paul Schrader

In the end it's a revenue stream. And all revenue streams eventually reach the sea. - Paul Schrader

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

I don't know if he was stupid. - Paul Schrader

I don't believe that anymore but you certainly know that world. But I wasn't Catholic. It was slightly different. The metaphorical strength of that stuff, of those stories, whether it's stories from the Bible or stories from contemporary mythology like The Exorcist have enormous metaphorical weight. - Paul Schrader

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