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Tisch Graduates, De Niro is Talking to You

Tribeca Film Festival founder keeps it wonderfully real during NYU Commencement address.

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By Richard Horgan

Robert De Niro grew up near the Tisch School of the Arts. He has made eight feature films with Martin Scorsese, Class of 1964, who met editor Thelma Schoonmaker at Tisch.

On Friday, De Niro followed 2014 Tisch Commencement speaker Scorsese with a wonderful, similar pep talk of his own. It’s De Niro’s best role since Silver Linings Playbook, full of memorable passages like this one:

“On this day of triumphantly graduating, a new door is opening for you.

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Richard Horgan

Richard Horgan is co-editor of Fishbowl.

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