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
School readiness is the biggest single component of K-12 reform that is being overlooked by the other candidate and addressed by Vice President Gore ... School readiness in not just a cognitive thing, its a physical thing and its an emotional thing,
I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.
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 don't think anybody's all good or all bad.
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
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.
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 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.
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.
You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.
It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'
When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.