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Paul Schrader Quotes: The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.
         

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.


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Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.



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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.



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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.



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I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!





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