Robert De Niro Sounds Off On Acting, Directing, And Donald Trump

"A hit song by Bananarama in the ’80s told us that Robert De Niro‘s Waiting. Tonight, on Real Time with Bill Maher, he finally got the chance to get a few things off his chest.

Maher tried to balance things between show business chat and trying to draw out De Niro on a few political topics. He acknowledged the actor’s greatness by reading off a laundry list of films enhanced by De Niro’s work, and asked what goes into deciding which film to work with.

“I see the possibility,” he said. “Some I’ve been involved with from the inception. They’re movies I’ve felt were worthy. I think I have a pretty good average. I just pick certain things, that I feel are good, well-written, or smart, or the director’s good. Scorsese, I just go with him no matter what’s he going to do.”

Asked whether there was anything he missed out on, De Niro had a surprising choice: The Silence of the Lambs. He said he was taking too long to think about doing the Hannibal Lecter role, and director Jonathan Demme just moved on to Anthony Hopkins. “I don’t regret it,” De Nir said. “That’s just what happened.”

De Niro was asked to reflect on his directing of two films, The Good Shepherd and A Bronx Tale. Why didn’t he do more of that?

“It takes a lot of work to direct a movie,” De Niro said, adding, “If you do a film, you make it your own.” He enjoyed working with kids who were not actors, De Niro said, noting that they had to “be from that world” in order to be convincing.

Can the 80-year-old De Niro keep going? “I hope I can. I’m very busy,” he said. “I keep going because I know if you don’t keep going, you will atrophy and dry up.”

Because De Niro is President Joe Biden’s age, he was asked about the age question that stalks the president.

“This whole thing about him and his age – the bottom line is it’s Biden versus Trump, and we want to live in world we enjoy.” Vote for Trump, “and we get the nightmare. Vote for Biden and it’s back to normalcy.”

Maher tried to draw De Niro into a deeper analysis, asking why many current polls show Trump winning decisively. De Niro claimed not to know, saying that he supported Biden because “I don’t want to feel the way I did after the election of 2016. The guy is a total monster.”

De Niro went on to call Trump “a mean, nasty, hateful person – I’d never play him as an actor.” De Niro avoided Trump in New York, calling him a “clown,” but adding, “He’s a classic bully. He’s got to be stopped.”

But even bullies have to trade on something that people like, Maher pressed. He then asked about the New York plan to post the National Guard in the subways, which De Niro seemed surprised to hear.

He did concede, at Maher’s urging, that there’s a lack of common sense on the left and the right."


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Exactly if y'all want to blame somebody blame. Senator Joe Manchin and senator Kristen sinema
For stopping anything great Joe Biden was trying to do
I must admit whoever was Joe biden's puppet master was a much better president than I expected him to be, but let's face it. He's old and he's not defending the good things that he did do also getting into these stupid a$s wars cost him dearly. It's almost like the Israeli president did it on purpose so Donald Trump could Moon walk to victory. Also, as a working person I was doing much better under Trump even though because of Trump I got laid off of a pretty great job because of the trade war