Brett Ratner quotes

I fear God and respect God and love God. (Brett Ratner)
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun. View quote
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When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element. View quote
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When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. View quote
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I look for stuff that I'm passionate about. View quote
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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. View quote
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I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there. View quote
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When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. View quote
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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. View quote
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In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business. (Brett Ratner)
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. View quote
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Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body. View quote
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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. View quote
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Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. View quote
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