37 Quotes by Scott Rudin

I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

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.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

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.

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.

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.

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.