Explore Quotes by Brett 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.

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

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

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

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

I would love a robot butler.

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

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

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

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

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.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.