Robert De Niro Interview For Stone – Which Also Stars Edward Norton & Mila Jovovich

Robert De Niro Interview For Stone Which Also Stars Edward Norton & Mila Jovovich

While in the charming city of Toronto for the Toronto Film Festival I caught up with Robert De Niro for his new film Stone, a prison-set psychological crime thriller that also stars Edward Norton and Mila Jovovich. Check out what he had to say below.

When do you think you'll sit in the directors chair again?

Robert De Niro: I have a few things I want to do, I only see myself doing at the most three more movies. One of them would be a sequel to The Good Shepherd, maybe even a third part, I don't know.

People respect and admire you so much, do you ever get intimidated working with other actors?

Robert De Niro: When you're with people and you're working with them intimidation goes away pretty fast. You've gotta work together, so really, you know, I don't know, it goes away. It has to. My job is to help people if they are really nervous that we have to get past that and do what's needed for the scene, or whatever, or maybe use it for the scene.

Certain actors when I was younger I'd meet, I was impressed with them, I remember I worked with Robert Mitchum, and when I met Brando, and even Ed (Norton). He (Norton) was so smart and clever that it was a joy to talk with him, and he liked to talk a lot too. He was great. But I wasn't intimidated. I was impressed.

How did you prepare for this role in Stone?

Robert De Niro: We had a guy who had worked in that prison who was the technical consultant for me. The story in general with my character and what he goes through is something that aside from what he was giving me consulting wise with certain things that were very very helpful, I could emphasize with my character a lot to say the least, it's a classic situation, it's explained in the writing, I didn't really have to do much research on that.

The movie philosophically says a lot, do you think we make our own destiny's?

Robert De Niro: I sometimes think as I get older things get pre determined for me, whether I liked it, wished for it, wanted it or whatever in some way. But then with other things you do get a choice to change, and that choice you make to change is still apart of this grand scheme. It's like these birds you see fly 9000 miles from one side of the earth to the other. The northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, the way they find their way there every year. Some how when you get older you see all these cycles, I sometimes think things are planned.

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