His reputation as a well-respected, accomplished wedding dresses actor precedes him.

 

So, unfortunately, does his tendency to mumble and clam up during interviews.

 

Small wonder, then, that Robert De Niro was willing to give more than one-word responses to NBC News anchor Brian Williams at Saturday's "Directors Series" talk as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's opening cocktail dresses weekend.

 

"Do you consider yourself an introvert?" Williams asked as one of his lead-in questions.  

 

"I guess I am in some ways and in some ways I'm not," De Niro mused, not bothering to expand on his cryptic answer.

 

Williams had to cross himself designer wedding dresses at that point, less than five minutes into the interview. Luckily for the charismatic anchor, however, the stop-and-start moments wouldn't happen too frequently.

 

Relatively speaking.

 

The self-professed De Niro fan (he mentioned trying to bridesmaid dresses plus size coax his 19-year-old son through the "rite of passage" of watching De Niro films) spoke candidly with the 67-year-old actor on topics ranging from the actor's viewing preferences to Bloomberg's policies to September 11th.

 

When asked if he likes rewatching his old movies, De Niro clarified that he doesn't ever browse through HBO in high hopes of catching himself in a replay of "Taxi Driver" or "Raging Bull."

 

"I don't do that, Brian," the actor admonished evening dresses Williams' eager questioning. "I watch the news and I watch the 'Today' show. I'm very set in my ways."