Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for ‘The Corrections’ and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show. – Scott Rudin
If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that’s basically in a discussion with the culture we’re in, how could you not want to do that? – Scott Rudin
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose. – Scott Rudin
The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story. – Scott Rudin
Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended. – Scott Rudin
I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I’m not that interested in entertainment. – Scott Rudin
You want reviews to come the week the movie’s opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good. – Scott Rudin
Anybody who understands how a movie gets made understands that a deep-pockets player is not going to make a movie that has anything defamatory in it without protections. – Scott Rudin
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. – Scott Rudin
You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don’t, you’re an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you. – Scott Rudin
‘The Social Network’ was probably one of the two or three things I’ve done in my life that I’m most proud of. I’m not going to engage in what about it was disappointing. There’s nothing about it I was disappointed in. – Scott Rudin
If you’re going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you’ve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you’re living in. – Scott Rudin
That’s my goal, to feel like I’ve done the best I could. When I’ve done that, anything else that happens is a bonus. – Scott Rudin
I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you’d never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it. – Scott Rudin
I’ve done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights. – Scott Rudin
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I’m very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. – Scott Rudin
I think you have a responsibility to the people you’re making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don’t want to let up and I don’t want to let down. – Scott Rudin
I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker. – Scott Rudin
I do what I feel I know how to do and don’t do things that I don’t. I’m a product of my sensibility. – Scott Rudin