Brett Ratner Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”