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Brett Ratner [1969-0] American

Rank: 103
Director, Film director

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.

Failure, Fear, Mom, Movies, Patience, Respect

Quote	Tags	Rank
I fear God and respect God and love God.	Fear, Respect	101
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.		102
I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.		103
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.	Failure	104
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.	Movies	105
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.		106
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.		107
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.	Mom	108
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.		109
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.		110
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.		111
'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.		112
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.		113
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.	Patience	114
I'm constantly being visually stimulated.		115
I'm definitely not a nerd.		116
I would love a robot butler.		117
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.		118
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.		119
Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.		120
I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.		121
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.		122
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.		123
I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.		124
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.'		125
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.		126
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.		201
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.		202
I don't have any regrets.		203
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.		204
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.		205
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.		206
I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.		207
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.		208
I want to print books by people in the film industry.		209
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.		210
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.		211
I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.		212
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.		213
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.		214
When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.		215
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.		216
I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.		217

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