Robert De Niro reveals which film project gave him the jitters
Robert De Niro got so nervous directing his first film he asked friends for advice. The ‘Taxi Driver’ actor, 79, got behind the camera for 1993’s ‘A Bronx Tale’ – in which he also starred – but said he was riddled with jitters as the venture was “something new”. He told Page Six about how he “got advice” from “certain friends who had been in similar situations – actors who directed movies”: “You just gotta jump in and do it and take it moment by moment, day by day and that’s it.” Based on a one-man play by Chazz Palminteri, 71, ‘A Bronx Tale’ features De Niro as a straight-laced bus driver try...