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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.

Paul Schrader

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Paul Schrader
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
Film Critic
Film Director
Screenwriter
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Paul Joseph Schrader
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