Neil McCauley

"A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a... a marriage?"

- Neil McCauley during his conversation with Vincent Hanna.

Neil McCauley was a career criminal and the leader of the robbers. He serves as one of the two main protagonists, as well as the protagonist villain in the 1995 crime film Heat.

He is the counterpart to the film's other protagonist, Vincent Hanna, whom McCauley forms a correlative interaction with as well as his archenemy.

He was played by the acting veteran, Robert De Niro.

History
McCauley is a former convict who wants a new life and soon became a career criminal who formed his own heist crew.

Personality
To be added

Trivia

 * Although considered to be the film's primary antagonist, Neil appears solely as the protagonist villain who acts as an anti-hero as well as a sympathetic villain due to his respectable nature, while his latest recruit Waingro appears a lot more sinister and violent than McCauley.
 * Because of this, Waingro appears as the true main villain of the movie since he had bigger plans and acted a lot more dangerous than McCauley himself.