https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE_9yXAJlxs
Film legend Robert De Niro gave the commencement speech for NYU’s Tisch School of Arts and he didn’t attempt to soften the hard truth for the graduates in attendance. “You’re f*cked” chimed De Niro, introducing the grads to a lifetime of rejection and coping with the stress. “I hear that Valium and Vicodin work,” he says.
It’s a fun but honest speech that students who focus on creative and artistic endeavors need to hear. The “so what?” mentality is truth and it means nothing that you’ve completed a program in school. You haven’t proven yourself and you really do need to keep working. It helps that De Niro is funny throughout, too. If he wasn’t, it’d be a pretty tense and depressing time at graduation. Enough to make you wish you didn’t show and decided to smoke in your car instead.
(Via New York Daily News)
