Quote of the Day

"Different writers have different, what they call “the regimen of the room,” all these rules. Don’t ever go into the writing room, unless you are planning to write. Don’t go in there and do anything else. For some writers, it’s 500 words a day, no matter what. I’ve been in various writers’ rooms—Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Mishima. Mishima had an upstairs room, and he had a locked door. You unlock that door, and you go down another hallway, which was all dark, to another locked door. So he would lock both doors, and then he would be inside his room. The only thing he could do there was write. His nickname in gay circles was Cinderella, because no matter what he was doing, or what kind of sexual episode was going on, he’d check his watch, and he had to be home at midnight to write."

Because he is Paul Schrader there are about twenty different quotes from his interview in Interview Magazine today that I could offer up to you as our "Quote of the Day." But I couldn't resist him talking about that hunk Yukio Mishima...

... so that's the one that sticks. Paul would know anyway, since he made the movie about Mishima! (And a pretty good movie, at that.) The conversation, P.S., is between Paul and Oscar Isaac -- the two worked together recently on The Card Counter, of course. I wasn't nuts about that movie, but Oscar looks hot in it so it is watchable. Now excuse me while I zoom in on that top picture and try to figure out everything that Paul Schrader has on his bookshelves...