Albert Brooks Magnets
Description: Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film follows Travis Bickle, a taxi driver and veteran, and his mental state as he works nights in the city.
Description: Albert Brooks as Robert Cole: "Okay. We're gonna have to do this ourselves. All right? I'll have to Foley it. So what kind of surface can you give me to run on? ... What do you think that surface looks like to you? ...in terms of what, in the reality of the motion picture, it looks like. What do you think? It's a spaceship. What kind of surface might he be running on?" Albert Henderson as Head Mixer, giving one of the best line reads in cinematic history:
