I waited outside his dressingroom, camera ready. I never do that, it embarasses me too much, but tonight I just couldn't resist, I had to come home with the picture. Robert De Niro is one of my top three favourite legends together with Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino. With a bit of courage I entered, and found him surrounded by his people, interpreters, an actor and the director of the new Italian film he's  promoting, where he actually acts in Italian! Everyone was calling him Bob. I introduced myself,  asking politely for my kodak moment (maybe he wasn't too happy about that..but..). We exchanged a couple of words, a smile and a laugh, and it was already time to start...