A snowstorm’s as good a time as any to settle back and watch Arena’s recent interview with the legendary screenwriter and director, Paul Schrader. Sean Rocks conducted the public interview with Schrader in the O’Reilly Theatre in Belvedere College, as part of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
In a remarkably candid interview, the topics included Schrader’s thoughts on the first line of his obituary inevitably reading “The writer of Taxi Driver“, miscasting films due to studio pressures, the creeping influence of drugs and alcohol, family and why market research has deadened creativity in film-making.
Listen back to the full audio of Paul Schrader on Arena here.