Top 50 Brett Ratner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I fear God and respect God and love God.”

— Brett Ratner

2. “When you’re fearless, you take more risks because you’re less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.”

— Brett Ratner

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

— Brett Ratner

4. “I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry – BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.”

— Brett Ratner

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “I’m definitely not a nerd.”

— Brett Ratner

9. “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

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

— Brett Ratner

11. “I’d want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.”

— Brett Ratner

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Before I did ‘Rush Hour,’ I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.”

— Brett Ratner

16. “I don’t have any regrets.”

— Brett Ratner

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “I love movie directors. I don’t care who it is.”

— Brett Ratner

23. “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

24. “When you’re the director, you kinda do all the work.”

— Brett Ratner

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

— Brett Ratner

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “In my public life, I’m just a guy who enjoys having fun.”

— Brett Ratner

31. “Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body.”

— Brett Ratner

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

— Brett Ratner

33. “Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.”

— Brett Ratner

34. “I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.”

— Brett Ratner

35. “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

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

— Brett Ratner

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

— Brett Ratner

38. “I’m a laugher and a lover of comedy.”

— Brett Ratner

39. “I’m constantly being visually stimulated.”

— Brett Ratner

40. “I look for stuff that I’m passionate about.”

— Brett Ratner

41. “I would love a robot butler.”

— Brett Ratner

42. “In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”

— Brett Ratner

43. “I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.”

— Brett Ratner

44. “I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.”

— Brett Ratner

45. “I’ve been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.”

— Brett Ratner

46. “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

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

— Brett Ratner

48. “Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.”

— Brett Ratner

49. “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.”

— Brett Ratner

50. “Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.”

— Brett Ratner