An article revisits director Joel Schumacher's frank attitude towards his less prestigious early work, focusing on his 1983 comedy DC Cab. Schumacher, later celebrated for 1990s hits such as Falling Down, A Time to Kill and The Client, always maintained he had no regrets about the film, explaining he took the job out of professional necessity rather than artistic choice, at a stage in his career when he had few options beyond persevering and improving.

The piece quotes a 1993 New York Times interview in which Schumacher contrasted DC Cab, a comedy vehicle for Mr T made shortly after his Rocky III breakout, with the prestige of Out of Africa, wryly noting that such choices were never realistically available to him. It also situates Schumacher within a wider tradition of directors, including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who cut their teeth on low-budget films before achieving acclaim, framing DC Cab as an honest product of its time rather than something to be embarrassed about.