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The Card Counter with Paul Schrader and John Patrick Shanley (Ep. 318)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

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The Black Heart of Exitentialism

"He gives me that room to experience the pain, the weight of what is unresolved in my own life," he says. "I come from a background where you're born into this world soaked with guilt and then you just get guiltierane." 'i don't want your life ivewand the life of this character,' writes writer David Walliams. "'A cab driver is, in fact, the black heart of exitentialism', not how you think of a cab driver,'" adds author.

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