Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes

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.

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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

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• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

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• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

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• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  

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• If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

  

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• If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.

  

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• I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.

  

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• I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

  

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• Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

  

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• The best of prophets of the future is the past.

  

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• If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

  

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• I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

  

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• Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

  

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• You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

  

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• I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

  

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• There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.

  

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• I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

  

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• Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show … to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.

  

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• 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.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Interesting
  • Door
  • Break