Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin is an American film producer and a theatrical producer. Rudin started to work as a theatre production assistant aged 16. In lieu of college, he took a job as a casting director and then started his own company. His firm cast many Broadway shows. Rudin moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and started to work at Edgar J. Scherick Associates. He formed his own company, Scott Rudin Productions, and his first film was Gillian Armstrong’s Mrs. Soffel. Soon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth14 July 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
'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.
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.
Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.
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.
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.
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.
Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.
You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.