Ratner Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Brett Ratner

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds. — Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. — Brett Ratner

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it — Vaddey Ratner

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

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

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible. — Brett Ratner

The problem with being seven is that you're aware of so much and yet you understand so little — Vaddey Ratner

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun. — Brett Ratner

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

I don't have any regrets. — Brett Ratner

Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them. — Brett Ratner

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.' — Brett Ratner

I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and Michael Jackson is just beyond. He's at a whole other level, spiritually. He's got the God spot. Everyone has it, everyone has that God spot, but it's just the way he's in tune with it. He has it. It's right there, and when he starts to sing, God has just opened it up for him. That's why he's not comfortable around people and things, because he's just such a unique - he feels blessed just to be himself. "I can't believe I'm Michael Jackson." — Brett Ratner

Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived. — Vaddey Ratner

Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking. — Vaddey Ratner

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

Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave. — Vaddey Ratner

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best. — Brett Ratner

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater. — Brett Ratner

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is. — Brett Ratner

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

Rehearsal? What's that? Rehearsal's for fags. Rehearsal. Not much. — Brett Ratner

The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy." — Brett Ratner

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

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

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

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

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation — Vaddey Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

Often I lose myself in the constellation of my own ideas, forever searching for point of illumination. But no matter where I look, I find you, shinning and bright, offering me what ever it is I seek, you are my one single star. My sun, my moon, my guide and direction, I know as long as I have you, I'll never lose my way. Even if I can not touch you, I know I will see you, feel you, from anywhere. If I need you I know where to find you — Vaddey Ratner

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

Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark. — Vaddey Ratner

No matter what ugliness and destruction you may witness around you, I want you always to believe that the tiniest glimpse of beauty here and there is a reflection of the gods' abode. — Vaddey Ratner

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live. — Herbert Ratner

Absence is worse than death. — Vaddey Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

It's a gift to be able to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it. — Vaddey Ratner

Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learns to take in even the atmosphere of an echo. — Vaddey Ratner

There exists such a place, such sacred space. You have only to envision it, to dare to dream it. It is within you, within all of us. — Vaddey Ratner

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds. — Brett Ratner

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to. — Chris Tucker

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. — Brett Ratner

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. — 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. — Brett Ratner

Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to clutch to its hole. Dredged up and beaten. Blood and drool and womb mud. How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing. Dressed and powdered now. Engineered to abstract design. Cling, suck and cry. Follow with the eye. Gloom and drought of unprotected sleep. Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm? Return, return to negative unity. — Don DeLillo

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone. — Vaddey Ratner

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience. — Brett Ratner

You can dig a hole in my heart and bury all your sadness. I'll be your grave. — Vaddey Ratner

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

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. — Brett Ratner

I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then. — Brett Ratner

I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering — Vaddey Ratner

The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces. — Herbert Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

Once I believed I would live forever. Death never entered my mind. Then one day, death surprised me! — Vaddey Ratner

I would love a robot butler. — Brett Ratner

A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity. — Vaddey Ratner

I'm constantly being visually stimulated. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight — Vaddey Ratner

The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness. — Herbert Ratner

Your grief will fade ... It's hard to believe this now, my friend ... but it will wither and, like a flower, leave behind always a seed of possibility. — Vaddey Ratner

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." — Brett Ratner

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert. — Brett Ratner

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body. — 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. — Brett Ratner

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. — Vaddey Ratner

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

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business. — Brett Ratner

We are all echoes of one another, Raami — Vaddey Ratner

Poetry is like ... first all you have is ...
A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. — Brett Ratner

I'm definitely not a nerd. — Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. — Brett Ratner

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff. — Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. — Brett Ratner

There is no greater humiliation than hunger. — Vaddey Ratner

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. — Brett Ratner

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 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. — Brett Ratner

Animals are not like people. If you leave them alone, they won't hurt you. But people will, even if you've done no wrong. — Vaddey Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about. — Brett Ratner

Life is like that." papa turned once again to the Mekong. "Everything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home ... — Vaddey Ratner

Lightning struck, the sky roared, and the night cried a giant's tears, thunderous and inconsolable. — Vaddey Ratner

When you love a flower", he said, as if wishing to explain his altered experience, "and suddenly she is gone, everything vanishes with her. I lived because she lived. Now she is gone. Without her, I am nothing. — Vaddey Ratner

If the river brought us here," I ventured tentatively, "then when it reverses course, it'll carry us back. — Vaddey Ratner

I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies. While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I'm really just making the films I want to see. There's not a strategy. — 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. — Brett Ratner

I fear God and respect God and love God. — Brett Ratner

Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. This way you'll have time to think if you ought to say the things you want to say. — Vaddey Ratner

It was enough that I knew I was not alone, that, at the very least, standing here beside me was this one person, who, unbeknownst to me till now, had all along been journeying this same journey with me, only from the opposite direction. — Vaddey Ratner

Words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical. — Vaddey Ratner