Spinal Tap's Rob Reiner - "I Still Have The Same Drive" - video Dailymotion

ODN

The legendary director returns with a sequel to his 1984 mockumentary hit, but the favourite of his movies may surprise. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

Transcript

00:00you love all your children you know even the ones that are rotten whether or not people like it the

00:04reviewers they hate it they love it you know i can't control that if i met somebody who really

00:10dug those that album then i could make a connection with them rob reiner hello sir

00:16hi johnny how are you i'm very well mate i'm very well indeed thanks now forgive me if you're a man

00:22who feels awkward in the face of compliments but i'd be remiss not to mention at the start of this

00:26that stand by me was probably the first film that i discovered and watched on my own it was the first

00:31film that i felt spoke to me as like a as a kid and therefore became my not only my favorite film

00:38but possibly the most important movie i'll ever watch uh so how old were you at the time i was

00:44probably the first time i saw it was probably very very young probably like maybe eight years old

00:48seven or eight years old it was on tv in the 90s i remember coming downstairs i sneaked downstairs at

00:53night when people went to bed and just like watch movies that were on and that was the first one

00:57that kind of really hit me and then every year i'd be looking to see when it was going to come on tv

01:01again when i could watch it again um and yeah it's been one of those that really really stuck with me

01:06so thank you for that mate thank you it's an important movie for me too because it was in a

01:12weird way a coming for a a coming of age for me as a as a filmmaker because i it was the first time

01:19i had made a film that would separate it apart from anything that my father would have done my

01:24father was also in show business and made films but this is something that was more of an extension

01:30of my personality than anything i had done before that so the fact that you liked it and other people

01:36accepted it uh validated the kinds of things that i wanted to do well i'm glad i'm glad you feel that

01:42that validation mate because it it means i'm sure it means a lot to a lot of people but it certainly

01:46means a lot to me uh lastly funnily enough spinal tap became the litmus test that i would sort of

01:51initiate any new friend or potential partner or anyone in my life uh my dvd of that and then kind

01:57of learning that it was the same man behind both was almost like discovering my buddha in a way so uh

02:04wow so not not to over egg it but this this is a borderline religious experience for me oh okay all

02:08all right i mean that you mentioned that because um my dad uh you know he he was he did a comedy

02:17album with mel brooks called the 2000 year old man and they were improvised very much like what we did

02:23with spinal tap and i could always tell if i met somebody who really dug those that album that i could

02:32make a connection with them so it sounds like you had a similar kind of thing where if you met somebody

02:37who dug this is spinal tap that meant you could have you'd be on the same wavelength 100 100 i

02:43remember for a long time it was a a couple of british tv shows called like peep show uh the thick of it

02:49uh a thing called garth merengue's dark place and this is spinal tap and those were that was the set

02:54and if you got to know me it'd be you'd be sitting down at some point late at night and we'd be

02:57watching those and i'd be judging people's kind of reactions to them so let's talk about uh kind of

03:02this quickly go over this this legendary run that people talk about maybe the most varied incredible

03:08run of all of cinema which included like when harry met sally and a few good men and obviously tap

03:14and stand by me and the list goes on uh and i wonder coming back to this form with these guys do you

03:20feel like the same thing drives you now as a filmmaker that drove you when you were making those and

03:26if not how have you kind of changed you know i i have that same drive the only thing that is different

03:34is i'm much older and i don't have as much energy that i had when i was you know in my 30s but the

03:42drive is still there i mean i still want to keep telling stories i still want to uh do the work that i

03:48do i get tremendous amount of pleasure out of it and the reality is that's all you can have i mean when

03:56you make something it's then for everybody else but the making of it is what you have for yourself

04:03so that part of it i really love and i still love to do are you the kind of guy that can appreciate

04:08his own work later or are you when you when you've made something and the toil is over with and the

04:13celebration is over with uh do you kind of leave it behind you know if you're flicking channels in a

04:18hotel room you know would you re-watch anything you've done or is there any particular kind of

04:23favorite little baby of yours that you look back on it's so funny you say because if some a film

04:28that i've made comes on or i'm flipping around i see it to me it's like home movies because i don't

04:35remember i don't think about it as the move i think about oh that's what i was doing that day

04:40or oh yeah that person i remember what i did with him that and those kind of things to me it's about

04:46the doing you know i just like to do i don't think about you know whether it's going to last or you

04:54know i hope people like it but it's something that i'd like to do so you know i i i listen you mentioned

05:01stand by me and that you know listen i i you know you say you love all your children you know even the

05:07ones that are rotten you know but that movie means the most to me because it was the first time i was able

05:14to separate myself from my father but uh you know all i can do when i make something is

05:22did i do what i wanted to do with that i had a certain thing in my mind did it happen if it if

05:30i achieve what i wanted to achieve then that's it then it's up to whether or not people like it the

05:35reviewers they hate it they love it you know i can't control that but i can control the idea did i

05:41have something i wanted to do in my head and did it wasn't realized the way i imagined and that's

05:48all i can control well rob uh i'm glad you you still have that drive because i i really enjoyed

05:53this one and it it does fill me with a little bit of uh when i when i go to bed at night i'll be i'll be

05:59pleased to know that one of my favorite filmmakers favorite film is the same as my favorite film

06:03uh i could speak to all day but i'm sure you've got plenty of people to speak to congratulations on this

06:07one mate um thanks for talking with me pleasure

Spinal Tap's Rob Reiner - "I Still Have The Same Drive"

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended