The A24 Podcast This Is How It Should End with Paul Schrader & Sofia Coppola
May 30, 2018
Paul Schrader, veteran filmmaker, and Sofia Coppola discuss Paul's unexpected career trajectory, ambiguous endings, challenges of writing without 'nighttime additives,' and what it took for Paul to finally make First Reformed, the movie he's been waiting his whole life to make.
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Final Cut Enables Risky, Low-Budget Work
- Final cut can free you to make financially modest but artistically daring films that studios wouldn't risk.
- Lower budgets plus creative control let you pursue themes you previously avoided.
Style As Bridge To The Sacred
- Style can bridge sacred themes and secular cinema without changing content.
- Transcendental cinematic techniques create spiritual resonance through form, not plot.
A Single Film Sparked A Career Thread
- Seeing Peeping Tom convinced Paul both that cinema can be spiritual and that he could make transgressive films.
- That moment seeded Taxi Driver and later connected to First Reformed's character lineage.