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As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground. -- Rob Reiner
I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries. -- Rob Reiner
I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.' -- Rob Reiner
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. -- Rob Reiner
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.' -- Rob Reiner
I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls. -- Rob Reiner
It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. -- Rob Reiner
I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that. -- Rob Reiner
This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting. -- Rob Reiner
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu. -- Rob Reiner
A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth. -- Rob Reiner
Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important. -- Rob Reiner
It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced. -- Rob Reiner
You have to give people the pleasure of giving you. -- Rob Reiner
They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people. -- Rob Reiner
I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul. -- Rob Reiner
I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah. -- Rob Reiner
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it. -- Rob Reiner
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. -- Rob Reiner
Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. -- Rob Reiner
Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed. -- Rob Reiner
With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them. -- Rob Reiner
When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing. -- Rob Reiner
I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing. -- Rob Reiner
There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed. -- Rob Reiner
To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything. -- Rob Reiner
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books. -- Rob Reiner
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children. -- Rob Reiner
I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things. -- Rob Reiner
I don't think anybody's all good or all bad. -- Rob Reiner
My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing. -- Rob Reiner
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows. -- Rob Reiner
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time. -- Rob Reiner
If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get. -- Rob Reiner
I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - it's a lot of fun because there's no responsibility. You let other people have the headaches. The director has all of the headaches. -- Rob Reiner
I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor. -- Rob Reiner
I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does. -- Rob Reiner
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. -- Rob Reiner
They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We're always trying to catch up to them. -- Rob Reiner
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece ... you can't walk away from that. -- Rob Reiner
I think Jews are the smartest people in the world. -- Rob Reiner
I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing. -- Rob Reiner
I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.' -- Rob Reiner
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever. -- Rob Reiner
The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader. -- Rob Reiner
If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself. -- Rob Reiner