Duvall on Roommates, Brando, and his Future

NPR with Robert Duvall. On roommates:

At one point, he shared a place with Dustin Hoffman at Broadway and 107th. Gene Hackman had introduced them to each other.

"We all three, we palled around together," Duvall says. "You know, talked and had our dreams and talked about our dreams and so forth — what we wanted in life and what we wanted out of our profession. And now I never see these guys. I never see these guys."

On Brando:

And they had one shared icon.

"If we mentioned Brando's name once, we'd mention it 25 times in a day," Duvall says. "He was kind of like our guy that we looked to."

And on his future, the humble:

"...I've got a few things I want to do," he says, "things ... that are just as challenging and as exciting, or more so, than 20 years ago. But it's very difficult to raise money nowadays, unless you're a big big star. ... Right now there's a wonderful script on the Hatfields and the McCoys, which is really like American Shakespeare. It's a brilliant, brilliant script."

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