Hollywood writer-director Paul Schrader has impeccable credentials. As a writer of screenplays, his resume includes 'Taxi Driver' , 'Raging Bull', 'The Mosquito Coast' and 'The Last Temptation of Christ'. He has also directed classics such as 'Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' . Schrader, 61, spoke to Avijit Ghosh on the sidelines of the 10th Osian's Cinefan film festival: Q What are the basic elements of a great screenplay? Theme and metaphor. You got to have an important theme and the right metaphor for it. Q The other day Hong Kong director Johnny To said he prefers to work without a screenplay. How would you react to that? I don't know what he meant. There is always a screenplay. It could be written down or in the head. That's a matter of detail. When you go out there, you have a location, actors, props. That's a...
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