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Paul Schrader in Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Cybill Shepherd, and Michael Phillips in Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A (2016)

Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader in Dog Eat Dog (2016)

Jeff Goldblum, Derek Jacobi, and Paul Schrader in Adam Resurrected (2008)

Michael J. Fox, Paul Schrader, and Joan Jett in Light of Day (1987)

Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor, and Paul Schrader in Blue Collar (1978)

Paul Schrader and Bobby Byrne in Blue Collar (1978)

Woody Harrelson and Paul Schrader in The Walker (2007)

Lauren Bacall, Woody Harrelson, and Paul Schrader in The Walker (2007)

Paul Schrader and Gabriel Kosuth in Dying of the Light (2014)

Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Paul Schrader, and Christopher Matthew Cook in Dog Eat Dog (2016)

Paul Schrader and Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons (2013)

Paul Schrader, Lindsay Lohan, and Amanda Brooks in The Canyons (2013)

Paul Schrader, George C. Scott, and Season Hubley in Hardcore (1979)

Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Schrader in Taxi Driver (1976)

Uma Thurman and Paul Schrader at an event for Oh, Canada (2024)

Uma Thurman, Paul Schrader, and Michael Imperioli at an event for Oh, Canada (2024)

Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Paul Schrader, and David Gonzales

Sigourney Weaver, Paul Schrader, and Alberto Barbera

Paul Schrader, Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan at an event for The Card Counter (2021)

Paul Schrader at an event for The Card Counter (2021)

Paul Schrader, Catherine Corsini, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Golshifteh Farahani, and Amr Waked

Ethan Hawke, Paul Schrader, and Amanda Seyfried at an event for First Reformed (2017)

Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis at an event for The Canyons (2013)

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Cybill Shepherd, and Michael Phillips at an event for Taxi Driver (1976)

Paul Schrader and Nicholas Jarecki at an event for Arbitrage (2012)

Paul Schrader at an event for Auto Focus (2002)

Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a film until he was 18. Although he more than made up for lost time when studying at Calvin College, Columbia University and UCLA's graduate film program, his influences were far removed from those of his contemporaries--Robert Bresson, Yasujirô Ozu and Carl Theodor Dreyer (about whom he wrote a book, "Transcendental Style in Film") rather than Saturday-morning serials. After a period as a film critic (and protégé of Pauline Kael), he began writing screenplays, hitting the jackpot when he and his brother, Leonard Schrader (a Japanese expert), were paid the then-record sum of $325,000, thus establishing his reputation as one of Hollywood's top screenwriters, which was consolidated when Martin Scorsese filmed Schrader's script Taxi Driver (1976), written in the early 1970s during a bout of drinking and depression. The success of the film allowed Schrader to start directing his own films, which have been notable for their willingness to take stylistic and thematic risks while still working squarely within the Hollywood system. The most original of his films (which he and many others regard as his best) was the Japanese co-production Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985).

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