And that""s just for openers.We got the fattest piers in the fattest harbor in he world.Everything moves in and out - we take our cut...You don""t suppose I can afford to be boxed out of a deal like this, do ya? A deal I sweated and bled for, on account of one lousy little cheese-eater, that Doyle bum, who thinks he can go squealin"" to he Crime Commission? Do ya? (pause) Well, DO YA?Terry is given "a present from your Uncle Johnny," a fifty-dollar bill, and then promised a prime work area at the docks at the next morning""s shape-up: "Put Terry up in the loft.He responded that she was hired because her mother and father were the "finest patrons" of the museum.Director Martin Scorsese was convinced by actor Robert De Niro, with whom he had madeMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), andNew York, New York (1977), that he film had to be made, after he was given La Motta""s biography by De Niro in 1974.He claimed he had always been thinking about what was best for his daughter and then suggested: "maybe you should do the same.