Brett Ratner Quotes
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When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
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People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.
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I fear God and respect God and love God.
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I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
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You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
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I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
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I don't have any regrets.
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When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
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Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
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I would love a robot butler.
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They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.
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'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
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I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
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I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
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I'm definitely not a nerd.
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
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When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
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At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
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In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
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I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
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I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.
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When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.