Top 33 Brett Ratner Quotes

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.

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.’

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

I’ve been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

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.

When you’re the director, you kinda do all the work.

I’m definitely not a nerd.

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

You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

‘Vacation’ means titillating my taste buds.

I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.

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.

I’m constantly being visually stimulated.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body.

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

When you’re fearless, you take more risks because you’re less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t have any regrets.

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

I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.

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.

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.

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

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I love movie directors. I don’t care who it is.

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry – BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.