Rupert Sanders Quotes

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

People who are satisfied with a prospective [presidential] appointment do not make any particular noise about it, but those who do not like it clamor.

Whether you love him or whether you hate him, Roman Reigns has earned his spot, and I'm hot at all these little crybabies out there going, 'We just stand up and boo him because we really don't like him.' Oh, really?

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

I didn't think this whole business with Director James Comey was handled well. So there are sort of day-to-day aspects of the operation that I think are really troublesome. And I know that there are a lot of people in the country who have lots of issues with decisions that Donald Trump has making on the domestic side.

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

I think a lot of the people that stand by Donald Trump are deplorable. And the things that they say are deplorable.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.