In Taxi Driver, what question does Travis Bickle repeat to his reflection?
Answer
You talkin' to me?
In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle repeats, “You talkin' to me?”
Robert De Niro performs the improvised mirror scene as Travis Bickle, a lonely New York taxi driver who rehearses confrontational behavior while looking at his reflection. The scene reveals his alienation and growing fixation with violence without placing him in a real conversation.
Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver, released in 1976, from a screenplay by Paul Schrader. De Niro plays Travis, while Jodie Foster portrays the child prostitute Iris and Harvey Keitel plays her pimp, Sport. Bernard Herrmann composed the score, his final film music before his death.
The scene is commonly remembered as “Are you talking to me?” but the film’s widely quoted wording is “You talkin' to me?” De Niro’s delivery and the scene’s repetition made the line a defining example of character-driven movie dialogue.