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INTERVIEWER
\nAre you so at home being a father?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nWell, I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not at home. I think, you know, it\u2019s tough. Eh, there are good moments and not so good moments. Anybody who has children knows that. So, it\u2019s just life. I, I needless to say, but as long as you have children, there\u2019s going to be a problem. You know, that\u2019s something.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nUh, speaking to, I mean, preaching to the choir because I\u2019m, I\u2019m a mother, too, and I have a thirty year-old…<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nMm-hm.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\n…and he is a handful.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nMm.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nHow many do you have?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nI have five and two grandkids.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nYou have to give me a lesson.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nYeah. I, I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t know if I can, but I–<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES (overlapping)
\n(chuckles)<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nSo, um, being a father, being a parent, eh, is just as much joy as, as it is a pain. Uh, what were the highlights for you as a parent and what were the down points that you really needed to resolve?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nOh. There\u2019s so many. But, you know, I just got my twins\u2019 report cards yesterday and I read them and they\u2019re pretty, pretty…I\u2019m very impressed, and had a meeting with their teachers. So, I was, that was a good moment. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES (overlapping)
\nThat\u2019s good. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nMine faked my signature.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nOh, really? Okay. Well, that\u2019s– (chuckles)<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nAnd the principal called me and said…<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nOh, boy.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\n…\u201dYou know, uh, Mrs. [name], you always, uh, sign your name in yellow marker and print.\u201d<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nOh.<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES
\nCrayon.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nYeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nAnd what were the down moments? When you really had to go deep in you and just find something that–?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nWell, you know, that, uh, even the ones that I would talk about, you know, eh, when the kids are not behaving or doing what you expect of them or what you\u2019d hope that they\u2019d want to do because you know in the long run for them, it\u2019ll, it\u2019ll, they\u2019ll be better off, uh, whatever that is. Having, eh, having some, knowing that they, uh, i-if they know what they want to do in their lives, it helps. The way you un-, I understand it, they don\u2019t know. Uh, you can\u2019t, um, you can\u2019t, um, I can\u2019t force the kids to be anything other than what they want to be.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nNobody can.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO (overlapping)
\nI like them to do…so, I\u2019m, I\u2019m pretty easy about that. I\u2019d rather negotiate with them about if you want this; then give me that. Let\u2019s– as opposed to being, um, punishing and stuff like that.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nUm, on the other hand, you know, I think, many, many years ago, let\u2019s say a few decades ago, the family was more together.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nMm.<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES
\nMm.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nAnd I think the world goes, uh, it\u2019s not the right way for families because we, we\u2019re driven apart.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nYeah.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nWe have too m-, too, too many things to do and we just don\u2019t have the time to dedicate to our kids and to this relationship. What do you do about that?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nUh, I, I don\u2019t know. Kirk might have something to say about that.<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES
\nI think it\u2019s, I think it\u2019s a really good point. I, I think not so long ago, maybe thirty, forty years ago, I think communities were much stronger and that people tended to not move away so quickly or, or, you know, but now, as soon as kids hit teenage years, their first thought is to escape the area in which they grew up and work in another country or work halfway across the country. Um, and I think it\u2019s, I, I think all that\u2019s good about living in a community, um, is perhaps being lost in, in the modern world. You know, I s-, I, when I go back to Italy now I still see that there are, um, there is, uh, there are smaller communities and there are, uh, communities which, eh, which are, um, still surviving, and I think it\u2019s a much healthier, um, environment to grow up in and, you know, and to stay in with the support of a community, rather than everyone just kind of heading off on their own.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nUh, it\u2019s very true. My son told me, um, when he was what, uh, twenty-three, he said, \u201cI want two things. Number one: I don\u2019t want, uh, to be what you me to be, and I want to move away from you as far as I can…<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES
\nMm.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\n…in a different zip code possibly,\u201d but there is still love.<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO (overlapping)
\n(chuckles)<\/p>\n
KIRK JONES
\nYeah.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEWER
\nSo, how do you keep the love there when there is physical distance still?<\/p>\n
ROBERT DE NIRO
\nThat\u2019s a good question. I liked my kids to be all around. I don\u2019t like them to be off here and there unless they really have a, a reason or a job that pulls them there. Uh, I, I, I think the Italian thing is really good because the communities stay together and other, there are other countries and other cultures that have this, obviously. They stay together. You know, the whole family lives in different apartments in a ho-, in a building or something, that\u2019s all nice stuff if you can do it. Uh, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n
INTERVIEW ENDS<\/p>\n
** Everybody\u2019s fine is released to DVD 2 June 2010**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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