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

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

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

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

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 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 always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Scott Rudin

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

Scott Rudin

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

Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.

Scott Rudin

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

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

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

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

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

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 have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.

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

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