Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.
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I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their first film, they make it thinking, "Well, this'll be the one that gets me to the place where I can make the second film the way I want to make it, and that'll get me to the place where I can make $100 million on the third film." And I thought, "Well, if I put sustainability at the bottom of my priority list, then what opportunities is that going to free me up to pursue?" And that's what I've always done.
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One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.
