List of Brett Ratner Quotes

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.

Would It Be Nice To Win A Film Award One Day? Yes. But The Critics Are Going To Have To Wait Till I'm Ready. Right Now, My Gift Is Making Big Movies That Audiences Want To See.

Movies Are The Biggest Export In The World, The Biggest American Export. It Influences People All Over The World. Music And Movies. That's What's Exciting About What We Do, The Fact That It's So Global. It Brings People Together. People Don't Have To Understand The Language To Laugh At Actors. They're Going To Laugh Even Though They Don't Understand What They're Saying. Cause They're Seeing It.

When Critics Or People Judge, I Think It's Harder To Make A Commercial, Pop Movie Than It Is To Make A Pretentious Art Film. It's Harder To Reach Millions Of People And Satisfy Them And Make Them Happy. These Films Kind Of Get Ghettoized, This Genre Because There Are So Many Big, Big Movies That Are Such Big Hits, But Aren't Any Good. The Audiences, They're Not Judging The Style Of The Director, Or The Execution Of The Film. They're Just Looking To Be Entertained. They Want To Escape From Their Reality, And That's Why We Make Movies, To Get People To Escape From The Realities.

Whoever Writes A Bad Review, I Put Their Name On A List, And They're Going To Get Taken Care Of One Day Down The Road. Otherwise, I Don't Let It Bother Me. The Truth Is, These Are Review-proof Movies. The Audiences Are Going To See It. My Audience, Our Audience, Isn't Reading Esquire Magazine To See If My Movie Is Good Or Not. They Just Want To Laugh, To Be Entertained, And Lose Themselves.

You Can't Show A Four-hour Movie In A Theater, Really.

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.

'vacation' Means Titillating My Taste Buds.

I Love 'guitar Hero,' And I Think It's A Part Of Pop Culture.

I Love Movie Directors. I Don't Care Who It Is.

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 Never Dreamed I Would Be Producing The Oscars. That Was A Huge Deal For Me.