“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
“I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.” PeopleFilmGenerationsPostsPreconceptions Author: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 laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.” KnowsMadeGenerationsMinesBrokeLaughedTarantino Author:Paul Schrader
“Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.” LongBlackWhiteLong TimeShotsClubsBlack And White 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
“Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.” SettlingViewersGet Ahead Author:Paul Schrader
“One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.” ProblemSolveFilmmaking Author:Paul Schrader
“That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.” SituationCome UpDisposition Author:Paul Schrader
“There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.” KnowsGivingFirstsEnoughSituationMinutesDesignPerformancesGive MePressureWeatherTerrifiedLightingEnough TimeUnder Pressure Author:Paul Schrader
“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.” MayNextOpportunityDifficultAbilityTeachFiguresAmountComputerProgramPerformancesEntrepreneurWorkersDataMassiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialCatalystSupercomputers Author:Andrew McAfee