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Screenwriter Paul Schrader donates collection to Ransom Center
The University of Texas’ Ransom Center now honors the writer of the famous line “You talkin’ to me?” as well as the actor who spoke it.
Ransom Director Tom Staley announced on Friday that screenwriter and director Paul Schrader has donated his work to the center. Schrader was the writer behind such classic movies as “Taxi Driver,’” “Raging Bull,” “American Gigolo” and “Affliction.” The center already has the archive of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” star Robert De Niro.
‘I first heard about the Ransom Center through Robert De Niro, when his collection came here,” Schrader said in a news release. His donation includes more than 300 boxes of materials, from script outlines and drafts to correspondence and photographs.
The collection needs to be processed and archived, but the Ransom will display a few of the Schrader materials in a case in the lobby through March 21. Visitors can already see some items from “Raging Bull” and “Taxi Driver” in the center’s current ‘Making Movies’ exhibit.
Read the press release here.
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