Brett Ratner Quotes

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Brett Ratner

Profession : Director

Birth : March 28, 1969

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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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 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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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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I'm definitely not a nerd.

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

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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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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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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.

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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.

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I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

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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.

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I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

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

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

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

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I would love a robot butler.

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

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

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