Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.
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I think that we have been able to demonstrate that we cannot just consume software, that we can create software that can be used all over the world, that we have that kind of talent in Africa.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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For me, open source is a moral thing.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
