Originally Posted by
AfricanBluebird
You have to consider that he pours a lot of money into his production company, Tribeca, which of course funds many productions by younger film makers who ordinarily wouldn't get funding for their movies/documentaries via traditional studio funding.
He admitted, or alluded to, taking on jobs to fund Tribeca that perhaps he wouldn't do unless he was trying to raise significant funds to ensure Tribeca can continue to operate, pay staff and fund projects.
So while I don't like some of the commercial stuff he does, he actually does it for a very good reason. Films like the Godfather, Raging Bull or Goodfellas, don't come around that often and actually didn't even pay him as much as some of the poorer work, like Dirty Grandpa.
As an aside, one of my favourite De Nero films is Midnight Run... very underrated
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