Brett Ratner Quotes

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

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  Trying, Comfort, Elements

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• When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

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  Failure, Fearless, Risk

  "Brett Ratner Interview – RUSH HOUR 3". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2007.

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• Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

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  Creative, Sometimes

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• Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

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  Talking, Years, People

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• I fear God and respect God and love God.

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  And Love, God Love, God And Love

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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.

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  Heart, Mouths, Ugly

  "Brett Ratner Resigns as Producer of the 2012 Academy Awards". www.ifc.com. November 08, 2011.

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• I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

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  Hate, Winning, Iphone

  "The iPhone is a toy". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.

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• 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. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night.

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  Jobs, Night, Different

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• I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

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  Looks, Passionate, Stuff

  "Brett Ratner Exclusive Interview KITES: THE REMIX – Plus He Talks TOWER HEIST, CHAOS, RUSH HOUR 4, 3D, More". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 12, 2010.

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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.

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  Artist, Childhood, Taste

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• There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

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  Memories, Father, Night

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea.

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  New York, Love You, Ideas

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• I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.

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  Different Experiences, Different

  "Brett Ratner Interview - RUSH HOUR 3". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.

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  Girl, Doctors, Tests

  "Brett Ratner's Apologies: The Last Stand". www.mtv.com. November 9, 2011.

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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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  Years, Beverly Hills, Facts

  "The GQA: Brett Ratner". Interview with Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

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  Thinking, Jumping, Choices

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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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  You Like It, Yeah, True To Myself

  "If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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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.

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  Mom, Children, Father

  "Brett Ratner on How His Homeless Father Inspired His Nonprofit Work". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Home, Vanity, Watches

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• I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula.

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  Stars, Thinking, America

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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.

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  Fashion, School, Kids

  "Brett Ratner Interview - RUSH HOUR 3". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 07, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Mom, Beach, Brother

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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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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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.

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  Writing, Laughing, Audience

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

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  Four, Hours, Theater

  "Brett Ratner Talks Eddie Murphy, the Oscars, a Woody Allen Documentary, BEVERLY HILLS COP 4, Tarsem’s SNOW WHITE, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 24, 2011.

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