Paul Schrader Quotes (8 Quotes)

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

His gifts are now more social than sexual. He's this society walker who has his lady friends, and a boyfriend on the side.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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