Happy Birthday: Paul Schrader

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paulschraderPaul Schrader

Born: July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Married to: Mary Beth Hurt (6 August 1983 – present) (2 children)
Jeannine Oppewall (1969 – 1976) (divorced)

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What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, “I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.”.

We believed in a very real hell and very real evil. My mother took my hand once and stabbed me with a needle. She said, “You know how that felt, when the needle hit your thumb? Well, hell is like that… all the time!”.

If you have made a film that has been shelved or discarded, nobody–not your wife or best friend–will ever believe it is any good, because they [Hollywood studios] don’t discard $35-million investments.

Every time you think the studios have…

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