Brett Ratner Quotes - Page 2

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

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

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

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

I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is just beyond. He's at a whole other level, spiritually. He's got the God spot. Everyone has it, everyone has that God spot, but it's just the way he's in tune with it. He has it. It's right there, and when he starts to sing, God has just opened it up for him. That's why he's not comfortable around people and things, because he's just such a unique - he feels blessed just to be himself. "I can't believe I'm Michael Jackson."

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

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

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

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

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

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I would love a robot butler.

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

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

I don't have any regrets.

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