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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1435 - Paul Schrader

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Paul Schrader’s upbringing was steeped in the contradictions of religion, which helped him explore the contradictory characters in his screenplays, like Travis Bickle, Jake LaMotta and the protagonists of his recent films, First Reformed, The Card Counter and Master Gardener. Paul talks with Marc about his early career as a film critic, his rejection of Hollywood filmmaking, his experience directing Richard Pryor, and the sibling dynamic he brought to Raging Bull.

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0:50.5

All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck,

0:54.7

Nick? What's happening? How's it going? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast WTF. Welcome to it.

1:01.6

Exciting day. This is an exciting day. It might even be a nice day. I don't know.

1:07.7

Paul Schrader is on the show today. Um, Paul Schrader, one of the greats, one of the true artists

1:16.8

of film and screenwriting, just uh, you know, it was, I was not nervous, but I didn't know how he would

1:24.0

be. This guy's a a fucking real intellectual and has written some of the greatest movies of all time

1:29.2

and directed a few. He wrote taxi driver. He wrote the last temptation of Christ,

1:33.6

bringing out the daddy. Well, he wrote and directed hardcore American jiggle,

1:36.6

Ocap people affliction. His last three movies are kind of a informal trilogy first performed,

1:43.9

the card counter and his latest is master gardener. And I talked to him and I think I got some stuff

1:50.9

out of him. Some good stories, some nice tidbits about Richard Pryor, George C Scott, some,

1:56.5

some of the movies we talked about, some insight into his conception of Travis Bickle,

2:02.4

how one of his movies did not end the way he wanted to end. It's kind of a great talk.

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