Scott Rudin

“They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's...”

“I was once a fairly angry person.”

“I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.”

“Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.”

“Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none...”

“If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?”