Paul Schrader Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Paul Schrader born?
a) 1946
b) 1950
c) 1942
d) 1955
Answer: a) 1946
2. What is Paul Schrader’s primary profession?
a) Actor
b) Screenwriter and Director
c) Producer
d) Cinematographer
Answer: b) Screenwriter and Director
3. Which film, written by Paul Schrader, is considered a landmark in New Hollywood cinema?
a) Raging Bull
b) The Godfather
c) Taxi Driver
d) Apocalypse Now
Answer: c) Taxi Driver
4. Paul Schrader collaborated with which director for the film Taxi Driver?
a) Francis Ford Coppola
b) Martin Scorsese
c) Steven Spielberg
d) Robert Altman
Answer: b) Martin Scorsese
5. Which of the following films did Paul Schrader both write and direct?
a) First Reformed
b) The Last Temptation of Christ
c) Mean Streets
d) Goodfellas
Answer: a) First Reformed
6. What is the title of Paul Schrader’s influential 1972 book on film criticism?
a) Sculpting in Time
b) Transcendental Style in Film
c) Notes on the Cinematograph
d) The Cinema of Loneliness
Answer: b) Transcendental Style in Film
7. Which filmmaker is NOT discussed in Schrader’s Transcendental Style in Film?
a) Robert Bresson
b) Yasujir? Ozu
c) Carl Theodor Dreyer
d) Ingmar Bergman
Answer: d) Ingmar Bergman
8. Paul Schrader’s screenplay for Taxi Driver was inspired by which existentialist novel?
a) Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
b) The Stranger by Albert Camus
c) Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
d) Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Answer: c) Notes from Underground
9. Which film directed by Paul Schrader features a character named John LeTour?
a) Light Sleeper
b) American Gigolo
c) Cat People
d) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Answer: a) Light Sleeper
10. What is a recurring theme in Paul Schrader’s films?
a) Romantic comedy
b) Existential isolation
c) Historical epics
d) Science fiction adventures
Answer: b) Existential isolation
11. Which Paul Schrader film is a remake of a 1942 horror classic?
a) The Comfort of Strangers
b) Cat People
c) Auto Focus
d) Affliction
Answer: b) Cat People
12. For which film did Paul Schrader receive his first Academy Award nomination?
a) First Reformed
b) Taxi Driver
c) Raging Bull
d) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Answer: a) First Reformed
13. Which Schrader-directed film is a biopic about Japanese author Yukio Mishima?
a) The Yakuza
b) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
c) Hardcore
d) Blue Collar
Answer: b) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
14. Paul Schrader wrote the screenplay for which Martin Scorsese film about a boxer?
a) The Fighter
b) Raging Bull
c) The King of Comedy
d) After Hours
Answer: b) Raging Bull
15. In which film does Paul Schrader explore the life of a gigolo?
a) American Gigolo
b) Light Sleeper
c) The Walker
d) Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Answer: a) American Gigolo
16. What is the profession of the protagonist in Schrader’s The Card Counter?
a) Poker player
b) Drug dealer
c) Taxi driver
d) Private investigator
Answer: a) Poker player
17. Which film marked Paul Schrader’s directorial debut?
a) Hardcore
b) Blue Collar
c) American Gigolo
d) Cat People
Answer: b) Blue Collar
18. Paul Schrader’s Hardcore is thematically inspired by which classic film?
a) The Searchers
b) Citizen Kane
c) Vertigo
d) Double Indemnity
Answer: a) The Searchers
19. Which actor starred in Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo?
a) Robert De Niro
b) Richard Gere
c) Harvey Keitel
d) Willem Dafoe
Answer: b) Richard Gere
20. Which Schrader film explores the life of Bob Crane, star of Hogan’s Heroes?
a) Auto Focus
b) The Comfort of Strangers
c) Affliction
d) The Walker
Answer: a) Auto Focus
21. What is the setting of Paul Schrader’s The Yakuza?
a) New York
b) Tokyo
c) Los Angeles
d) Chicago
Answer: b) Tokyo
22. Which Schrader-directed film features Nick Nolte as a troubled police officer?
a) Affliction
b) The Comfort of Strangers
c) Light Sleeper
d) Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Answer: a) Affliction
23. Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is often compared to which Robert Bresson film?
a) Pickpocket
b) Diary of a Country Priest
c) A Man Escaped
d) L’Argent
Answer: b) Diary of a Country Priest
24. Which film did Paul Schrader write but not direct, featuring Jesus Christ?
a) The Passion of the Christ
b) The Last Temptation of Christ
c) Jesus of Nazareth
d) The Greatest Story Ever Told
Answer: b) The Last Temptation of Christ
25. In which Schrader film does a character keep a detailed journal?
a) The Card Counter
b) First Reformed
c) Light Sleeper
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above