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I was once a fairly angry person.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Angry
Angry Person
Fairly
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I keep my overhead as low as I can.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Overhead
Low
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I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Affinity
Brothers
Coen
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I don't particularly have a wide social circle.
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Wide
Circle
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Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Ephemeral
Onto
Success Is
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Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'
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Arizona
Executive
Fox
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I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Huge
Always Me Doing
Factor
Me Doing Always
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Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Classics
Great Actor
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Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Awards
Critics
Finished
Come And Go
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I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Women Are
Love Stories
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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.
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Sensibility
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I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.
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Meant To Be
Basically
Interested
Meant
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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.
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Guard
Wherever
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You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
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Opening
Reviews
Month
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I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Articles
Non Fiction
Life Movies People
Magazine
Real People
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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 / Film Producer
Bonus
Anything Else
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I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Commonality
Love Work Together
Same Thing
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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.
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Subjects
More Or Less
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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 / Film Producer
Casting
Conscious
Love I Am Doing
Love Always I Am
Producer
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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.
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Hooked
Saturday
Myself See Never
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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?
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Discussion
Wherewithal
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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.
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Let Down
People
Responsibility
Thinking
Making Movies
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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.
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Agreement
Corrections
Months
Negotiating
Twice
Appear
Audition
Bruce
Four-Year
Spent
Subsequently
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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.
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Understands
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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 / Film Producer
Colleagues
Haste
Jest
Meant To Be
Offense
Sensitivity
Emails
Intended
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If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world youre living in.
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Three
Two
Years
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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 / Film Producer
Engaged
Life Culture World
Influences
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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.
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Beautiful
Smart
Thematic
Writing
Figured
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'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 / Film Producer
Disappointed
Disappointing
Done
Proud
Three Things
Two
Life Done My Life
Life My Life Nothing
Engage
Network
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Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.
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New York
Giving
One Day
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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 / Film Producer
Movie
Idiot
Yale
Cast
Cinematographer
Directed
Ended
Fired
Gordon
Him
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Refused
Windows
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They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin / Film Producer
Failure
Examining
Exploring
Giving
Giving Up
Seeing
American Lives
They Say
Yours
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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.
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Adaptation
Thematic
Best Work Movies
Figured
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It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who the adult cast is without making them feel that the adults are the center of it? You don't want to make it misleading, but at the same time you want to make it appealing.
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Kids
Adults
People
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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.
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Perceive
Good Always Your
Beneath
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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 / Film Producer
Casting
Best World Yourself
Fits
Psychologically
Stylistically
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