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We need more cabbies out there like Travis Bickle.

“I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ‘em to Harlem. I don’t care. Don’t make no difference to me. It does to some.”

He takes people to Brooklyn, he breaks up child prostitution rings. I mean, come on, the dude’s a real upright fucking citizen.

I wonder how he would have felt about putting a credit card reader in his cab, though.

Some interesting factoids via IMDb’s Taxi Driver entry:

Robert De Niro worked twelve hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness.

Various studios considered producing this film; one suggested Neil Diamond for the lead role.

In the coffee and pie scene, Travis orders apple pie with melted cheese. When serial killer Ed Gein was arrested, he asked the police for a slice of apple pie with melted cheese in exchange for a full confession.

While it may be true that the scene where Robert De Niro stands before the mirror and asks his reflection, “You talkin’ to me? Well, I don’t see anyone else here” was improvised, the exchange is a quotation from Shane (1953) where Alan Ladd and Ben Johnson square up to one another just before their barroom brawl.

Premiere voted this movie as one of “The 25 Most Dangerous Movies”.

One of the 25 most dangerous movies? That’s better than any Academy Award as far as I’m concerned.