Scott Rudin Quotes

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

F. Gary Gray, I think, is one of the best directors I've ever worked with in my life, and I'd love to work with him again.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

Working with Atanu again after 'Mayurakshi' is quite a challenge for me.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

I've been a big fan of David Wain's and was honored to get to be in one of his projects.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'