"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."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Paul Schrader

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“Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.”
“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”
“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.”

Source : Barbara Park (2011). “The Kid in the Red Jacket”, p.14, Yearling
“I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.”
“I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.”

Source : "Christina Applegate's Life After Breast Cancer" by Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. September 19, 2013.
“You are the only thinker in your world and your thought is creative. Whatever you think about the other person, you are also creating in your life.”
“The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.”

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