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Martin on Robert: He's the only one left alive who knows where I come from
Updated On: 12 October, 2023 12:53 PM IST | Los Angeles | PTI
Martin Scorsese says Robert De Niro, actor, long-time collaborator and friend, is probably the only one alive who knows where he comes from
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Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. Pics/AFP
They were 16 when they first met and are now 80. Six decades and more later, Martin Scorsese says Robert De Niro, actor, long-time collaborator and friend, is probably the only one alive who knows where he comes from. The filmmaker, considered amongst Hollywood`s greatest ever, was born in Queens, New York, not far from where De Niro grew up. "He comes from the same area that I did and somehow through `Mean Streets` and `Taxi Driver`, we found that we were drawn to the same subject matter, same psychological, emotional conflicts in people, in character and in ourselves," Scorsese said from New York in a Zoom group interview, also attended by PTI.
"He really is the only one left alive, who knows where I come from and who I am... The key words are trust, fearless and less vanity," the filmmaker said. At some point in their younger days, Scorsese and De Niro lost touch, only to be reintroduced to each other by filmmaker Brian De Palma. Their friendship and professional collaboration has endured for 64 years and 10 feature films, including their latest project "Killers of the Flower Moon" and gems such as "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull". Scorsese has always fought the system to make the kind of cinema he wants and De Niro, according to him, who won an Oscar for "The Godfather Part II" (1974), helped him stay original. "He (De Niro) was very powerful at the time after he won his Academy Award for `The Godfather Part II`... " "At that point in time too... we always had the danger of the studio taking the film away from you. There`s no such thing as a final cut for me at that point. And inevitably, the actors would comply with the studio. This guy wouldn`t do that. He would stay with you. So I had that as a power play, too. He was sort of protective of me and the film," Scorsese said. De Niro and Scorsese first collaborated on "Mean Streets" in 1973.
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