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
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.
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.
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.
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.
You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'
Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.
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.
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.
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 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 loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.