I'm not going to direct many more movies, maybe three more and then that's it. It was kind of scary for the money people. It was one of 10 scripts that had been around, considered too hard to produce, too ambitious. This script was already around, going from director to director. It is hard to believe that an actor of your stature has trouble getting monetary backing. It was a struggle to get the money, to get people to put up the money. Well, about 13 of those years are just getting it to the point where you can just get it done and get it out. You always hear that films are 15 years in the making. Well, I worked on this film for about eight years. Your last directing gig was 'A Bronx Tale' 1993, a very impressive debut. I'm sure that there are positive things in that culture. I don't say this disparagingly, but I never had an interest in any fraternities of any kind. What is your take on these secret societies? The rest was just creative interpretation. So screenwriter Eric Roth and my researcher got as close as we could get to create our scenes based on what we had learned. And a lot of them wound up at OSS, which was the early version of the CIA. How deep is the connection?Ī lot of the guys were part of that elite group, Skull and Bones, at Yale. 'The Good Shepherd' draws a straight line between involvement in Yale's secretive society The Order of Skull and Bones and the early CIA. It wasn't the way I thought of it originally, but what she did internally, her whole demeanor, it was terrific. And she put her own personal touch on the part, made it her own. She connected to the character from the beginning so that made it easy for me to direct her. Across the board, he was just great.Īngie was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a better performance, contribution and support. I'm extremely happy with Matt and what he did. How would you describe your star, Matt Damon? I never saw any American films that were that good. And other than the films that were made from the John le Carre books, I never saw any that were that good. I was raised in the Cold War, and I find that stuff fascinating. Have you always been interested in spy movies? One is the drama 'Sugarland,' to be directed by Jodie Foster, which will mark their first big-screen reunion since 'Taxi Driver' three decades ago.Īlthough you played a retired CIA agent in 'Meet The Parents', you have never shown much curiosity about this genre of film before. Angelina Jolie co-stars as Damon's long-suffering wife.Īt 63, the brilliant two-time Oscar winning star of hit films from 'Raging Bull' to 'Goodfellas' and 'Meet The Fockers,' De Niro has three films lined up for release next year. 'The Good Shepherd' stars Matt Damon as an emotionally frozen secret agent who willingly sacrifices his family life for his country. De Niro has not directed a film since 1993's 'A Bronx Tale,' but he returns to the director's chair for this Cold War thriller and also takes a supporting role. It is the pet project of none other than Robert De Niro, who took about eight years to bring his story of the CIA's founders to the big screen. Usually, there is an awfully good reason why those movies take forever to get made.īut 'The Good Shepherd' could defy the conventional wisdom. 2007/January/citytimes_January48.xml§ion=citytimes&col=įILM FANS know to lower their expectations when they hear a movie is some filmmaker's long-delayed pet project.
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