Paul D. Schneider
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Writer-director Paul D. Schneider has been a hobo, a railroad worker, a
magazine editor, and a documentary writer/director/videographer. Born
to working class parents in Hamilton, Ontario, he's been a lifelong
railfan (train enthusiast) and is writing a book about his days hopping
freights and working day-labor jobs while photographing trains in the
Pacific Northwest and the South in the 1970s. Later, he worked as a
editor for Trains Magazine and Railroads Illustrated Magazine, and
wrote two books on railroading for Kalmbach Publishing Company. He
lists Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" as two of his
favorite books, pointing to the latter as "the cornerstone of my belief
as an artist and a thinking person"). His interests also include
psychology, spirituality, photography, and music (British Invasion and
its indie music descendant, power pop). Schneider's favorite directors
include (in alphabetical order) Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola,
David Mamet, Michael Mann, Sam Peckinpah, and Martin Scorcese.
