It isn’t much of a revelation to say that Paul Schrader is a wordsmith.
The “First Reformed” writer-director, who also penned the screenplays to “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” got his start as a critic before becoming a filmmaker.
Even so, his Words With Friends prowess is impressive: In a discussion with A24, Schrader reveals that he’s won more than 2,100 games of the Scrabble-esque time-killer.This began “probably about four or five years ago,” according to Schrader.
“Larry Karaszewski turned me onto it.
You’re always waiting five or ten minutes for a meeting.
Larry said, you know, ‘What do you do with those minutes? You should play Words With Friends, because that’s what I do.’”He only partakes “whenever there are those dead times” and has made it a rule to “only play people I know.
I play Robbie Doyle the Irish soccer player.
What
Read full article