In the year that Robert De Niro won his first Academy Award (1974), Paramount Pictures’ biggest releases were Chinatown and The Godfather: Part II.
“I was wondering have you noticed this at all about De Niro, or what are your feelings about what happens to an actor like De Niro within the confines of the film industry?
The decline of the major studio drama is a sad symptom of the rise of action, superhero etc movies and, according to one actor, is why people like Robert De Niro aren’t enthused about making films anymore.
Where, on the set of Cape Fear, De Niro caught somebody looking at their watch and the person is yelled at, because it was like: ‘we are making art’.