Rob Reiner

Director

1947-03-06 – 2025-12-14

Rob Reiner was an American director, actor, and producer. After early fame as an actor on All in the Family, he directed acclaimed films including This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men. He remained active in film and public commentary through the 2020s.

Quotes by Rob Reiner

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect
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Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect
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It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
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I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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