I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented. Scott Rudin Read Quote
You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you’re trying to do. A lot of it, when you’re casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director. Scott Rudin Read Quote
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. Scott Rudin Read Quote
I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer. Scott Rudin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose. Scott Rudin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
