Top 50 Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I think you’ve got to be honest with yourself at what you’re good at. That’s the hardest thing to do.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

2. “A psychology degree doesn’t get you very far.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

3. “Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you’re in the game. So don’t be afraid of getting in the game.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

4. “You can’t be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

5. “If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

6. “Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

7. “I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

8. “I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

9. “You have to start at the very bottom and you’ve got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn’t become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

10. “Our military thought that they couldn’t get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

11. “Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

12. “We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

13. “People want to leave their homes but they can’t go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps them to alleviate some of the pain that’s going on in their life.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

14. “Because you can’t do anything halfway, you’ve got to go all the way in anything you do.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

15. “I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It’s nice when you can give someone that gift.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

16. “We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

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17. “Well, I don’t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

18. “I make movies based on gut.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

19. “Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That’s a trademark that I don’t think any producer would turn down.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

20. “Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

21. “Every time I make a movie I think that it’s going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they’re all going to fail. I am scared to death.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

22. “Anybody who’s really successful has doubts.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

23. “And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It’s still the cheapest form of entertainment.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

24. “Sometimes we’ll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

25. “You’ve got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

26. “If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

27. “I think it’s the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it’s coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

28. “I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

29. “What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

30. “I think I’m a great organizer. Not that I’m organized, but I’m a great organizer of other people.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

31. “Well, I feel that we’re kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we’re all in. It’s basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

32. “There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

33. “If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it’s not on the page, it’s not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

34. “The director’s who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

35. “It’s important to stand up for your work, otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

36. “We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

37. “We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

38. “Yeah sure, I’d love to have all my movies on DVD.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

39. “Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

40. “I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

41. “Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

42. “Definitely, it’s a fear of failure that drives me.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

43. “I don’t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

44. “The whole world has changed after September 11th.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

45. “But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there’s corrections you have to make.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

46. “And usually the studios they don’t want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they’ve got to pay you more.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

47. “It’s very difficult to release an X-rated movie.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

48. “When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

49. “I love taking you inside a world that you’re not apart of and showing how actually works.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer

50. “We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.”

— Jerry Bruckheimer