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Article: Cinema: My hero, Robert De Niro
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 6, 1994
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DE NIRO was it. He was who everybody in my acting classes wanted
to be. He was the ideal - to be Robert
De Niro, that was the end all. He was the focus the way Brando
was the focus, and his work affected you in very much the same way.
People idealised him, and the way young film-makers now want to be
Scorsese that's the way actors felt about De Niro. You ran to see
his new movie.
In his book American Film Now, James Monaco makes the case that
De Niro was probably the greatest film-maker of the 1970s, by his
association with the talents that he worked with. Everybody wanted
to work with him. This holds true for today - you know if De Niro
is in your movie you've got prestige, because he is ...