Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver1976

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 113 minutes

Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I… more »



Travis:
I'll tell you why. I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend.

Betsy:
Are you gonna be my friend?

Travis:
Yeah. What do ya say? It's a little hard standing here and asking...Five minutes, that's all, just outside. Right around here. I'm there to protect ya. [He quickly flexes both arms, causing her to laugh] Come on, just take a little break.

Betsy:
I have a break at four o'clock and if you're here...

Travis:
Four o'clock today?

Betsy:
Yes.

Travis:
I'll be here.

Betsy:
I'm sure you will.

Travis:
All right, four p.m.

Betsy:
Right.

Travis:
Outside in front?

Betsy:
Yeah.

Travis:
OK. Oh my name is Travis. [He extends his hand to her] Betsy?

Betsy:
Travis.

Travis:
Appreciate this, Betsy.

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