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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Samuel Goldwyn
Picture
Hell
Too
Costs
Make
Caustic
Anyway
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn
Home
People
Money
Nothing
Pay
Films
Television
Out
Bad
Stay
See
Stay-At-Home
Go
Movies
Should
Why
No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn
Better
Executives
Account
Than
Agency
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn
Shoes
Worn
Never
Put
Until
Least
Years
Five
Them
Pair
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn
Seriously
Seeing
Object
Bedroom
Screen
Belongs
Ill give you a definite maybe.
Samuel Goldwyn
You
Definite
Give
Maybe
Ill
The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
Samuel Goldwyn
Work
Smile
You
People
Walk
Face
Big
Everyone
Tells
Rival
Voted
Nominee
Around
Lot
Different
Your
Who
Companies
Even
Film
Oscars
Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn
Own
Some
About
My Own
More
Had
Than
Done
Regrets
Should
Things
Career
I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.
Sandy Gallin
Day
Every Day
Stress
Mind
Job
Every
Thinking
Took
About
Could
Hour
Houses
Deal
Clients
Go
Off
Site
Originally
Found
Started
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
Saul Zaentz
Myself
Me
Director
People
Smart
Think
Enough
Enough People
Everyone
Please
Worry
See
About
Writer
Make
Always
Wants
Sensitive
Movies
I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.
Scott Rudin
Love
Women
Think
Pretty
About
Generally
Women Are
Love Stories
Stories
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
You
People
Seriously
Responsibility
Down
Think
Take
Making
Making Movies
Up
Very
Want
Movies
Let Down
I have a big affinity for the Coen Brothers.
Scott Rudin
Big
Brothers
Affinity
Coen
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.
Scott Rudin
Good
You
Idiot
Energy
Beneath
Perceive
Someone
More
Feel
Feet
Mostly
Because
Always
Least
Coming
Up
Than
Behind
Younger
Your
Ground
Who
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
Scott Rudin
Success
Extremely
Onto
Very
Hold
Ephemeral
Success Is
Hard
The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. 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
Work
Beautiful
Best
Character
Writing
Smart
Somebody
Out
Take
Put
How
Material
Very
Story
Which
Movies
Thematic
Really
Figured
Adaptation
Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'
Scott Rudin
Arizona
Executive
Years
Years Ago
Fox
Raising
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.
Scott Rudin
Best
Bonus
Else
Could
Feel
Like
Goal
Done
Anything
Anything Else
Happens
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.
Scott Rudin
Made
Make
Without
Understands
How
Gets
Going
Anybody
Movie
Anything
Who
Player
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
Scott Rudin
Work
Love
Together
People
Same Thing
Group
Purpose
Putting
Doing
Same
Commonality
Who
Thing
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.
Scott Rudin
Work
More
More Or Less
Make
Subjects
Very
Get
Want
Less
Lucky
Serious
I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.
Scott Rudin
Me
Factor
Always
Doing
Huge
Movie
Loved
I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.
Sheila Nevins
Me
Somebody
Living
Twitter
Air
Respond
Instant
Quick
Fill
I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.
Sheila Nevins
You
Nervous
Before
Think
Back
Talk
Dead
Learned
Because
Very
Quiet
Get
Hold
Little
Moment
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.
Sheila Nevins
Good
Me
Papers
Bad
Read
Reviews
Lots
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.
Sherwood Schwartz
Saying
Good
You
Will
Say
Characters
Able
Written
Fail
Name
Names
Know
Well
Said
Still
Erase
Lines
Should
Show
Who
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