“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.” PeopleIfsWritingPlayActorsInterestingRolesContradictionNuance Author:Paul Schrader
“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.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesCharacterUseRealizingDifferencesInterestingDealsStandingCrossesTwentiesSymbolismBillboards Author:Paul Schrader
“I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage.” WayWholeProblemFilmGuyStarsInterestingNumbersIssuesWeekCrimePostsGenreCagesPulpTarantinoScorsese Author:Paul Schrader
“Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.” ReasonBlackWhiteInterestingNo ReasonBlack And WhiteJust Do It Author: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.” ThinkingWritingYoungArtistInterestingBreakDoorsWideBreaking DownYoung Artists Author:Paul Schrader
