Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

He is a godfather of close friend Michael Madsen's son Max. Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Filmography.

Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school". Harvey Keitel (born May 13 1939) is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma & Louise Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction Jane Campion's The Piano Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant and James Mangold's Cop Land.