Brett Ratner famous quotes

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
-- Brett Ratner

#Trying #Comfort #Elements

I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea.
-- Brett Ratner

#New York #Love You #Ideas

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.
-- Brett Ratner

#Jobs #Night #Directors

The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."
-- Brett Ratner

#Running #Giving #Guy

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
-- Brett Ratner

#Eight #Two #Documentaries

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.
-- Brett Ratner

#Artist #Childhood #Taste

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.
-- Brett Ratner

#Mom #Children #Father

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.
-- Brett Ratner

#Home #Vanity #Watches

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.
-- Brett Ratner

#Fashion #School #Kids

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
-- Brett Ratner

#Failure #Fearless #Risk

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
-- Brett Ratner

#Book #Kids #Young

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
-- Brett Ratner

#Oscars #Turns

I'm definitely not a nerd.
-- Brett Ratner

#Nerd

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.
-- Brett Ratner

Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.
-- Brett Ratner

#You Like It #Yeah

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
-- Brett Ratner

#Writing #Laughing #Audience

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
-- Brett Ratner

#Four #Hours #Theater

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.
-- Brett Ratner

#Stars #Rap #Differences

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.'
-- Brett Ratner

#Years #Beverly Hills #Facts

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
-- Brett Ratner

#Looks #Woody

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
-- Brett Ratner

#Directors

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
-- Brett Ratner

#Jobs #Different #Sometimes

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.
-- Brett Ratner

#Reality #People #Laughing

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.
-- Brett Ratner

#Cost #Stories #Want

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.
-- Brett Ratner

#Mean #Thinking #Long

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
-- Brett Ratner

#Comedy #Lovers

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
-- Brett Ratner

#Would Be #Oscars #Deals

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.
-- Brett Ratner

#Different

I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
-- Brett Ratner

#Asian #Olivia #Problem

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
-- Brett Ratner

#Rehearsal

I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.
-- Brett Ratner

#Girl #Doctors #Tests

Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
-- Brett Ratner

#Fans #Rush Hour #Hours

I would love a robot butler.
-- Brett Ratner

#Robots #Butlers

I want to print books by people in the film industry.
-- Brett Ratner

#Book #People #Want

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
-- Brett Ratner

#Feelings #Theater

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
-- Brett Ratner

#Mean #Vacation #Taste Buds

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
-- Brett Ratner

#Body #Bones #Know Me

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
-- Brett Ratner

#Heart #Mouths #Ugly

I don't have any regrets.
-- Brett Ratner

#Regret

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.
-- Brett Ratner

#Movie Love #Directors #Care

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
-- Brett Ratner

#Hero #Thinking #Guitar

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.
-- Brett Ratner

#Looks #Passionate #Stuff

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
-- Brett Ratner

#Hate #Winning #Iphone

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
-- Brett Ratner

#Fun #Guy #Having Fun

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
-- Brett Ratner

#Eight #Years #Cameras

I fear God and respect God and love God.
-- Brett Ratner

#And Love #God Love #God And Love

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
-- Brett Ratner

#Age #Needs #This Day

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
-- Brett Ratner

#Listening #Acting #Hardest

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
-- Brett Ratner

#People #World #Influence

I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.
-- Brett Ratner

#Wish #Watches #Being There