Rob Cohen

Rob Cohen (left) on the bridge of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in 2004
Born Robert Cohen
(1949-03-12) March 12, 1949 (age 63)
Cornwall, New York, U.S.
Occupation Film Director, Producer, Actor and Screenwriter
Years active 1975 - Present
Spouse Barbara Cohen

Robert "Rob" Cohen (born March 12, 1949) is an American film director, producer and writer.

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Early life [link]

Cohen was born to a Jewish family in Cornwall, New York. He was raised and spent his childhood in the Town of Newburgh and graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 1967 (according to an article by Germain Lussier in the Middletown (New York) Times Herald Record, August 3, 2008). He subsequently graduated from Harvard University.[1]

Film career [link]

Producing [link]

As producer, he has been behind many major motion pictures, including The Witches of Eastwick, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and The Running Man.[2] His latest movie is the third film in Universal Studios' The Mummy franchise begun by Stephen Sommers.[3]

Directing [link]

As a director, Cohen is mainly known for his hit films Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Dragonheart, Daylight, xXx, and The Fast and the Furious.[4] He also directed the critical and commercial flop Stealth. Cohen produced the comedy horror flick The Monster Squad and will direct the upcoming remake.[5]

Personal life [link]

He has four children: Kyle Cohen from a previous marriage and triplets, two daughters Jasi and Zoe (Jasi named after the village he revitalized in Indonesia) and son Sean. Kyle reverted his name back to the family's original surname Cashulin.[6] Cohen is Jewish.[citation needed]

Filmography [link]

As director [link]

As producer [link]

As writer [link]

References [link]

External links [link]


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Famous quotes by Rob Cohen:

"Stealth,"
"I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,"
"The crew in Australia was the best I ever had,"
"Be happy or die."
"This director had a pretty specific idea that he wanted to make this movie as realistic as possible and he created this device called a gimble. It’s basically a human eggbeater that they stuck the end of the cockpit onto so that you can recreate. And I think one of the very beautiful things about this movie is it’s seamless in terms of the CGI and the mix of putting me and Jessica and Jamie inside of the CGI and looking like we’re flying. You would be surprised that these planes are not real much less not flying."
"We built these amazing-looking futuristic planes entirely in Australia at Fox [Studios]. The techno stuff, Lizzy Gardiner's costumes ... I can't rave about the place enough, and if my next project comes off I'd shoot it in Australia without hesitation."
"If I do The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad I'll definitely be coming back to Australia for all the interior work, ... I'd do the exteriors in southern China. Frankly, the Stealth experience merely proved that if you do run into problems in Australia, you can solve them."
"We were really lucky,"
"I was glad that the protesters prevailed and we didn't shoot there. The sad fact is that that movies, at their core, are environmentally unfriendly."
"That whole thing with the dragonfly in the Blue Mountains, that really wasn't anything to do with Stealth , ... It could have been a movie about two people at a picnic making love in the woods. We were sort of caught in the middle of someone else's fight."
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