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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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. – 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
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
The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that’s all I care about. – 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
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 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.’ – 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 like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. – 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
It’s a very slow process – two steps forward, one step back – but I’m inching in the right direction. – 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
