Paul Schrader briefly

There's something on The Criterion Channel about Paul Schrader, an interview with him with clips of movies he talks about. Some of it is well, known----the thing with the Alka Seltzer in Taxi Driver stolen from Godard and a shot in First Reformed that he stole from Taxi Driver.

He's a very good writer, which may be deceiving. He got a bad response to a tweet he posted late one night. He later attributed it to taking Ambien and having had a few drinks. If he slurred his words and made a few typos, people might not have judged him so harshly, but this affected his career. People didn't know if they wanted to work with him if they had to worry about him alienating the public on Twitter. He tweeted or posted on Facebook that Harvey Weinstein was a well-known sexual predator but his crimes against cinema were what really bothered him.