Scott Rudin quotes

“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

Source : "Scott Rudin Dresses Down NY Times Theater Reporter" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 04, 2013.

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“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

Source : "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 08, 2008.

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“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

Source : "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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“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

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“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

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“'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

Source : "OSCARS: Producer Scott Rudin Talks Critics Awards, Salander, His 'Jeopardy' Discovery And Why A Non-Baseball Fan Relates To 'Moneyball'". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. January 12, 2012.

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“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

Source : Source: deadline.com

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“Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.28, Da Capo Press

“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

“While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.”

“Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed”

“In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.”