Like you, Robert De Niro is a big fan of the films Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have made together. Unlike you, it’s because he also has a deep bond with the Oscar-winning director—and the duo’s work reminds him, “in certain ways,” of the films he used to make with Scorsese, including classics like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver.

In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, De Niro said that he’d love to do a film with his old pal and the director’s newer muse: “Leo loves Marty the way I do, so it’s great. I’d love for the three of us to do something.”

De Niro and DiCaprio have worked together previously, like in the 1996 drama Marvin’s Room—but they’ve never been together in a Scorsese film (beyond the expensive short film The Audition). There have, however, been plenty of moments where their paths almost intersected again: De Niro almost starred in The Departed, the 2006 crime drama that finally earned Scorsese a Best Director Oscar win, but ultimately had to turn down the role because he was busy directing his own film, The Good Shepherd. (By the way, De Niro also wants to make a sequel to that film: “I’d love to do it, but it’s a real uphill battle.”) De Niro also almost starred in Gangs of New York—which also starred DiCaprio—but alas, scheduling conflicts abound in Hollywood.

But hey, now that DiCaprio has finally won an Oscar of his own, wouldn’t it be appropriate for a Scorsese movie with De Niro to become his next white whale? It’s what the people need, especially now that nobody can make jokes about Leo pining away for a glittery statuette.

We will, at least, be getting a Scorsese and De Niro reunion soon (sans DiCap), in the upcoming film The Irishman. In other reunion news, it seems the actor has been working hard to get Joe Pesci on board the film as well: “I’m trying to get him in. I hope I can. I don'’ know what’ll happen . . . we’ve gotta talk.”

Those actors haven’t worked together since Casino, and Pesci has largely retreated from Hollywood in the subsequent decades; he’s appeared in just six movies since 1995, with one more scheduled to come in 2018. “We’ve gotta talk” is, at least, a much more neutral update than the last one De Niro gave. At the Guys Choice Awards in June, here’s how the actor jokingly summed up Pesci’s response to a possible role in Irishman: “So far all he keeps saying is ‘Go fuck yourself.’”