Scott Rudin

“I don't particularly have a wide social circle.”

“'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.”

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

“I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“I was once a fairly angry person.”

“I keep my overhead as low as I can.”

“Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'”

“Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.”

“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.”

“I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.”

“Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.”

“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.”

“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.”