He is devoted to US director Michael Mann's stylised crime thrillers, especially 1995 gangster film Heat.
He once approached Mann at a Paris film festival and told him: "You were my technical adviser."
Faid claimed to have watched the film dozens of times to hone his skills as a bank robber.
Ha. Brilliant. Heat is a great movie in fairness.
De Niro was on some run for a while with movies like Casino, Heat and Ronin. Even The Score was vastly underrated IMO. It's amazing how quickly the quality of his roles deteriorated in the noughties.
Back in those days, my formative movie watching days, as a child, the name De Niro was synonymous with greatness. I was too young to watch his movies, but I knew Pacino and De Niro were proper actors.
