Paul Schrader

'Paul Schrader' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Schrader, Paul Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Dying of the Light

  2015, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Jesuit

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Venice 70: Future Reloaded

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Rolling Thunder'

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Milius

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Canyons

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Xtrme City

  2011, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen These Amazing Shadows

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Xtrme City

  2011, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Eames: The Architect & The Painter

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Godard Made in USA

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen More Tales from the Script

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Rules of Film Noir

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Nouvelle vague vue d'ailleurs

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tales from the Script

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Erika Rabau: Puck of Berlin

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Murnau, Borzage and Fox

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Adam Resurrected

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Influence and Appreciation: Taxi Driver

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen God's Lonely Man

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Producing 'Taxi Driver'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen The Walker

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Walker

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Passion: Films, Faith & Fury

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Pickpocket: Paul Schrader Introduction

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: An American Original

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist

  2005, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

  2004, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Decade Under the Influence

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Festival Pass with Chris Gore

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Heroes of Black Comedy

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Auto Focus

  2002, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The 100 Greatest Films

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bringing Out the Dead

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Forever Mine

  1999, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Making 'Taxi Driver'

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Screenwriter
• Play in Full Screen Forever Mine

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: The Antiheroes

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Touch

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Affliction

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Touch

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Affliction

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen City Hall

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Scene by Scene

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Paul Schrader:

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

"[Paul Schrader breaks into a wheezy cackle as he recalls a conversation he had recently with his fellow director, Robert Altman. As is the wont of two seasoned mavericks, they were discussing the cruel nature of Hollywood.] He was laughing, ... He said, 'Every time you think they've fucked you every way they can, they come up with a new way!'"

"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."

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

"I don't know if he was stupid,"

"It's an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, a real melodrama, which I wrote and directed and financed. Nobody paid me to do this film. If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic 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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."