Quotes by Brett Ratner

About Brett Ratner:

Brett Ratner is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, and music video director. He is known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break, as well as the comedy Horrible Bosses and its 2014 sequel.
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I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

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I'm definitely not a nerd.

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I don't have any regrets.

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

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I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Brett Ratner

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

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

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

Brett Ratner

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

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I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Brett Ratner

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

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

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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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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.

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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.

Brett Ratner

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

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

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameBrett Ratner
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornMarch 28, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Producer