American - Producer | July 14, 1958 -
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
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Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.
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I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.
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Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
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