Scott Rudin Quotes

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

The Coen brothers are amazing; they're special.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

I saw 'Fargo,' not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings - I'm sure my tape has been worn out.

To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

What I love about the Coen brothers - what everyone loves - is that they sort of toe the line of a truly dark comedy.

I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13.

I really like dramas that have a tone of comedy in them or the opposite, and those are done by people like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman but also Spike Jonze and David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers.