Who taught you the most, Bradley, besides other directors like Eastwood and David O. Russell? Robert De Niro. I tried to get him to do this movie, Limitless, and combine two characters. That was the first time I tried to cast a movie, even though I wasn't the director, and I went to see him in his hotel room. I I was pitching him the whole thing and then he wound up saying yes, which blew my mind because he was my hero. After that movie, he said he thought I should direct.