Brett Ratner Quotes
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.
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Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
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If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
