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‘Fast X’ and the Desecration of Movies. Plus: Paul Schrader!

The Big Picture

CHAPTER

The Tax Driver

"I had this notion of the metaphor of the tax driver. And I got to look at him and I saw the black heart of Dostoevsky," he says. "One of the reasons that tax driver has survived, decided to be in a good film, is that it carved the zeitgeist." A number of people have remarked to me, how do you pull these off? 'It's really not hard,' Spielberg says.

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