00:00Parents, you know, were working-class people who never had a book in the house.
00:16Whenever I need to be energized or re-inspired, I go back to his film.
00:30I mean, he took me to movies, my father, basically. And that was it.
00:34I learned visual things. I started reading when I was about 16.
00:45The strongest impression I ever got, I received, was going into a church.
00:49I was around seven years old when I went into my first church.
00:52It was the old Catholic cathedral in New York called St. Patrick's Cathedral.
01:00It was a church.
01:22There were a lot of actors that came to audition for the part.
01:24And I was shocked because there was no money. Nobody was getting paid.
01:28Marty was great. We became fast, fast friends.
01:39I went to him and I asked him, I said,
01:43Why don't you play this part? There's nobody, no actor on the planet that will play this part the way you can.
01:49And he did it.
01:59You talking to me? You talking to me?
02:02Who the hell else are you talking to? You talking to me?
02:05Back in 1976, they gave the Palme d'Or to Taxi Driver.
02:08And that was like a major thing for me because in America, the film did well.
02:13It was nominated for a few Academy Awards, but Paul Schrader and myself were not nominated.
02:29I thought it was the end of my career, that film.
02:36I didn't think so. Quite honestly, I knew for De Niro it was going to be fine because Bob would get his award.
02:41I knew he was such a wonderful actor and he'd get his Academy Award.
02:44But I thought I was going to go off to Italy and do films on Saints.
02:48Forever.
02:4916mm, yeah.
02:58We dared to touch the morality of the person of Our Lord.
03:08And that is something that is completely unacceptable for a Catholic soul.
03:12Have you seen the film?
03:13I haven't seen the film and I don't want to see it. I will never see it.
03:23I'm so happy to see him.
03:25Look, go inside, make yourself comfortable.
03:27No, no, go to sleep.
03:36We can't have a future of our art form without knowing its past.
03:41And I'll just keep saying it because it's true.
03:44Working alongside him, I've experienced some of my proudest acting moments ever.
03:59When I first met him, he told me how much he liked my film.
04:02His energy in liking my films has sort of given me a new energy in making movies.
04:07I hope that lasts a while, you know, and see what happens.
04:14I haven't worked with De Niro in a long time, but we seem to have grown together in similar ways.
04:42We always seem to be interested in the same material.
04:45Take chances. I'm not afraid of taking chances.
04:49Leo DiCaprio is somebody who also, even though he's 30 years younger, has a similar sensibility.
04:56These two men really are like my fathers in the world of cinema.
05:01To have scenes with Bob and being directed by Marty, you know,
05:05it was a small slice of heaven for me as an actor.
05:12It was a small slice of heaven for me as an actor.
05:43So you can imagine when I explained to my mother and father that I thought maybe I would make movies,
05:48they might as well have said become president or become an astronaut or something.
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