Scott Rudin Quotes

United States, Producer
July 14, 1958

Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film and theatre producer. His notable films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country For Old Men, as well as The Social Network, Lady Bird, The Truman Show, Moonrise Kingdom, School of Rock, Zoolander, The Hours, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. On Broadway, he has won fifteen Tony Awards for producing shows like The Book of Mormon, Hello, Dolly!, The Humans, A View From The Bridge, Fences, and Passion.

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
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.

Scott Rudin
- People
- Kids
- Feels

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
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.

Scott Rudin
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.

Scott Rudin
- World
- Culture
- Kind
'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