‘I Don’t Make Movies for Rich Liberal Elites’ - De Niro Defends Fed Arts Spending

MRC TV ^ | May 9, 2017 | Mark Judge

[bray]

Sounds like Robert would like to take in a few Syrians.

[mindburglar]

I must haved missed the part about “reciting lines written by someone else”, in Art History class.

[TigersEye]

Shove it up your 0bama, Bob!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"I don't make movies for rich liberal elites,” De Niro said at the event, which took place at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theatre. “We make movies to entertain audiences. Audiences vote by seeing them

Yes, they do. And when was the last time audiences turned out to see a Robert DeNiro film? Credit where it's due, DeNiro was excellent in "Godfather II" and "Mean Streets", and incandescent in "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" - but that was decades ago. These days he's a has-been who tried and failed to be a comedic actor and now makes headlines by blathering about Trump.

[jerod]

Nobody gave Chaplin government funds to make films. He made films, people paid to watch them and then he made money, not the reverse... The government handing out taxpayers money to ‘artist’ who make films that people don’t watch.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[laweeks]

After his behavior in Trump’s election, I have written this man off. I won’t watch a single movie that has him in the cast. He is a typical anti-American lefty Hollyweird jackass.

[stockpirate]

Chaplin wasn’t from a Muslim country, if those groups are so great let Hollywierd fund it.

[tom paine 2]

Maybe not but they love getting on the Big Government handout train.

[Maverick68]

If (for some strange reason) there were not another movie made, another song written and not another painting painted, the world would be just fine.

We have an entire catalogue of entertainment/culture to choose from by people who were actually proficient at their craft.

[a fool in paradise]

What’s more, Robert De Niro is REALLY full of Bullstalin.

Charlie Chaplin and other successful stars and starlets bucked the studio system and founded United Artists with their own wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio. The studio was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks with the intention of controlling their own interests rather than depending upon commercial studios.[1] The studio was repeatedly bought, sold and restructured over the ensuing century. The current United Artists is an in-name-only successor to the original company, which was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981.[2]

[minnesota_bound]

So he does not make movies for himself?
He is 1% of the 1%