Notes from 'The Making of Taxi Driver'

• 'there was a widespread sense of fear and revulsion about the way the red light districts were eating into the core of major cities.' p114
• Macnab quotes Paul Schrader 'the old Times Square was pretty fucking scary...It was all drug dealers and hookers' p115
• 'In the wake of 9/11 and the destruction of the World Trade Centre, the fear of the "other" that paralyzed Travis is shared by huge swathes of the US population.' p116
• There wasn't a large screening process before the release of Taxi Driver. Instead it was shown to friends of the production team, who knew the film was working 'when there is gasping, no laughing'. p117