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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Paul Schrader

Movies are about people who do things. The number one fantasy of the cinema is that we can do something – we are relatively impotent in our own lives so we go to movies to watch people who are in control of their lives.

Paul Schrader

Saving someone's life is like falling in love, the best drug in the world. You wonder if you've become immortal. It's as if God has passed through you. Why deny it? God was you.

Paul Schrader

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a film-maker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

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Born: July 22, 1946 (age 80)

Bio: Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and Bringing Out the Dead.

Known for:

Taxi Driver (1976)
The Canyons (2013)
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
American Gigolo (1980)
Dying of the Light (2014)

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