Brett Ratner
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Mom
I fear God and respect God and love God.
I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
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.
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
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.'
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
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.
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.
I'm constantly being visually stimulated.
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
I'm definitely not a nerd.
I would love a robot butler.
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
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 don't have any regrets.
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.
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.
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
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.
I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
I want to print books by people in the film industry.
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.
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.
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
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.
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
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.
Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.Collection: Creative
Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.Collection: Talking
You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.Collection: Thinking
There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."Collection: Memories
You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Girl
I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.Collection: Different Experiences