Paul Schrader Quote

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.

Interview in Schrader on Schrader (1990)

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...

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...

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...

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...