The good, the bad and the Universal: what Ron Meyer really thinks of his studio's movies - in pictures

A Beautiful Mind 'I don’t know that we’d do A Beautiful Mind again. That’s the sad part. It’s great to win awards and make films that you’re proud of and make money, but your first obligation is to make money and then worry about being proud of what you do' • Read what we thought of A Beautiful Mind Photograph: Universal The Wolfman 'One of the worst movies we ever made. The moment I saw it I thought, "What have we all done here?" That movie was crappy. We all went wrong. That’s one we should have smelled out a long time ago. The script never got right … The director was wrong. Benicio [del Toro] stunk. It all stunk' • Read what we thought of The Wolfman Photograph: Universal Cowboys & Aliens 'Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it ... You couldn’t have more talented people involved in Cowboys & Aliens, but it took, you know, 10 smart and talented people to come up with a mediocre movie. It just happens' • Read our review of Cowboys & Aliens Photograph: Zade Rosenthal/Universal Photograph: Photo Credit: Zade Rosenthal/Universal Land of the Lost 'Just crap. I mean, there was no excuse for it. The best intentions all went wrong' • Read our review of Land of the Lost Photograph: Universal United 93 'One of the movies I’m most proud of. It wasn’t a big moneymaker, but it’s a film I believe every American should see and it showed you what people can do in the worst of times and how great the human spirit is and all that. So there are moments that can make up for all the junk that you make' • Read our review of United 93 Photograph: Universal Babe: Pig in the City 'Wolfman and Babe 2 are two of the shittiest movies we put out' • We didn't review Babe: Pig in the City. But you can, here Photograph: Universal Scott Pilgrim Vs the World 'Scott Pilgrim, I think, was actually kind of a good movie. But none of you guys went! And you didn’t tell your friends to go! But, you know, it happens. Scott Pilgrim did deserve better, but it just didn’t capture enough of the imaginations of people, and it was one of those things where it didn’t cost a lot so it wasn’t a big loss' • Read what we thought of Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Photograph: Supplied by LMK/Universal