Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reineris an American actor, writer, director, producer, and activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael Stivic, son-in-law of Archie and Edith Bunker, on All in the Family. That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As a director, Reiner was recognized by the Directors Guild of Americawith nominations for the coming of age comedy-drama film Stand by Me, the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally..., and the courtroom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 March 1947
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.
The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million.
The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.
I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.
We are more than willing to get involved in forming a new system.
When I show up to act in a movie for somebody else, I just want to be nice and helpful and do what they want because I know how difficult it is to make a movie. I don't want to cause any problems. So you show up and do your job, and I think if a director understands that, you don't make a lot of demands.
You have to give people the pleasure of giving you.
We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.
The other side talks about being the party of diversity and the party of inclusion, ... And how do they figure this? This is what I want to know, except, unless they define diversity as two guys at the head of the ticket that are from two different oil companies.
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.