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Fri 08 Aug 2007You talkin' to me?As the writer of Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader bashed out some of the best-known lines in cinema and created a character he has revisited many times: the tortured male antihero. He tells Donald Clarkeabout his latest film as a director, The Walker, and the demons that have always been on hand to help with his film-makingPaul Schrader has, in some respects, been an old codger forever. During the wild days of the early 1970s he did, it is true, ingest his fair share of narcotics and fling himself at quite a few eager young women. Still, the screenwriter and director has always had the air of a resting intellectual about him.