[b]Paul Schrader
The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. [/b]
After all, you’ve earned it.
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It’s absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
Call it, say, the Woody Allen Syndrome.
Because many of the films I’ve made have had an intellectual edge, it’s harder for me to lie. It’s harder for me to go to people with money and say I don’t care about art, all I care about isc ommerce; all I really want to do is make money.
Tee-hee?
Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You’re always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that’s character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that’s even more character.
First, let’s run that by her.
There’s the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that’s mine. The generation that laughed at them - that’s Tarantino’s. And now there’s a generation that doesn’t know that there were any.
Not quite anything goes and not quite everything goes.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
Just not in Hollywood.