Robert De Niro

“Big Deal on Madonna Street, terrific movie. I mean, it’s been so many years since I saw it, but it was just terrific. There was another Italian movie, Mafioso, and that was also terrific, with Alberto Sordi. Marty and I also talked about doing a remake of that.”

“Divorce Italian Style. Yeah, this was a terrific movie. Terrific.”

“Blow-Up. As I remember, it was kind of… Because I think he shot it with… Who’s the young English actor? David Hemmings. But it was another– almost another style, it seemed. It was a more popular movie, I think. It was, in those days, an ‘art film,’ but more people saw it. It was a terrific movie.”

“And Agnès Varda’s film. And I knew Agnès and her husband, Jacques Demy, a little bit. We did this, and the toughest thing I remember was speaking French with Catherine Deneuve. It just drove me crazy.”

“This is the best of Fellini. Yeah. Well, La dolce vita. And I think– I remember I was… a premiere of it on Third Avenue at the Baronet or the Coronet, and I was there watching him come in. Of course, big fan.”