Robert De Niro

What crazy thing are they going to think of next?

We don't have time for the human side.

We know what the human side is.

Whatever the side, that'll be explained in 50 years in a movie.

Somebody will do a hopefully great director will do a great story on this time.

Someone will play Trump and they'll understand what it is and much more that's been learned in those years that that can be done.

But right now it's a survival thing with this country.

And I think people are just involved in their lives and they're not focusing.

And sometimes it comes out, oh, this is crazy, that's crazy.

It's what it is.

It's right there in front of us.

And then, but what happens, and if you study it, I...

Once those situations start developing and really get underway, like in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, East Germany, then when you find yourself having to rat on your neighbor, and maybe you don't like your neighbor for something they did to you, some slight, but now you have the opportunity to tell on them.

And all of a sudden that happens.

If you look at East Germany, East Berlin, Stasi and all that stuff,

Then you see how it affects everyday working people in little communities everywhere.

That's where it'll go.

I don't see how, and there are people who know this, who've lived and come out, writers who've come out and said that, experienced it, and are now living here.

And they can tell you firsthand how that works.

And that's scary.