CLASSIC SCENE
Standout sequences from the great movies
Chosen by BILL HADER
Taxi Driver
Alamy
Bill Hader: “A scene that kind of changed the way I look at movies is in Taxi Driver — when Robert De Niro has just taken Cybill Shepherd to the porno movie and it’s gone horribly wrong, and he’s on the phone with her afterwards in a hallway. And then the camera dollies off him and lines up on [another part of the] hallway and you still hear him talking. I saw that movie when I was 12, and I thought, ‘Oh, wow, the movie doesn’t want to watch this.’ I have no idea if that’s what Scorsese was going for — it probably wasn’t — but it unlocked a thing in my brain where I couldn’t look at movies the same way. After that I would start seeing where a director puts a camera, and how that can tell an emotional story. It really did affect me in a huge way.”