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Paul Schrader Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Loneliness
“Personnel Officer: How's your driving record? Clean?

Travis Bickle: It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: driving record, Clean, Conscience
“The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.”
— Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver
Tagged: force, Violence, all the king's men
“I think someone should just take this city and just...just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: City, Toilet, Fuck
“I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: cold, distant, Women, Misogyny
“Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Destiny, Direction, Choice
“The days go on and on...they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Morbid, self-attention
“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.”
— Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver
Tagged: fuckers, Scum, filth, Shit, cunts
“I got some bad ideas in my head.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Bad Ideas
“You talking to me?”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Psychotic
“Travis Bickle: 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 Bickle: Yeah.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Lonely, Happy, Friend
“Wizard: Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job—I mean, like that—that becomes what he is. You know, like—you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.

Travis Bickle: I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.

Wizard: It's not Bertrand Russell. But what do you want? I'm a cabbie. What do I know? I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

Travis Bickle: Maybe I don't know, either.”
— Wizard, Taxi Driver
Tagged: Job, Fucked, Bertrand Russell, cabbie, Fuck
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