Top 92 Ratner Quotes
#1. I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
Chris Tucker
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
Brett Ratner
#7. 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
#8. In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
Brett Ratner
#9. Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.
Vaddey Ratner
#10. When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
Brett Ratner
#11. 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
#12. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
Brett Ratner
#13. 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
#14. I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.
Brett Ratner
#16. I want to print books by people in the film industry.
Brett Ratner
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived.
Vaddey Ratner
#21. If the river brought us here," I ventured tentatively, "then when it reverses course, it'll carry us back.
Vaddey Ratner
#23. Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark.
Vaddey Ratner
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
Brett Ratner
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.
Brett Ratner
#35. 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
#36. 'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
Brett Ratner
#37. 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
#38. Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.
Brett Ratner
#39. 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
#40. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
Brett Ratner
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation
Vaddey Ratner
#45. 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
#46. I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
Brett Ratner
#47. 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
#48. Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
Brett Ratner
#49. You can dig a hole in my heart and bury all your sadness. I'll be your grave.
Vaddey Ratner
#50. 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
#51. I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.
Brett Ratner
#52. 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
#54. I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.
Brett Ratner
#55. 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
#57. The problem with being seven is that you're aware of so much and yet you understand so little
Vaddey Ratner
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Brett Ratner
#62. 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
#63. If you pay close enough attention, Raami, you'll realize that a single leaf can contain myriad lives imitating our own, and you'll know that there are always others traveling this world with you.
Vaddey Ratner
#64. Rehearsal? What's that? Rehearsal's for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
Brett Ratner
#65. Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
Brett Ratner
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.
Brett Ratner
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
Brett Ratner
#72. Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
Brett Ratner
#73. When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
Brett Ratner
#74. I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it
Vaddey Ratner
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good.
Vaddey Ratner
#81. 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
#82. You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
Brett Ratner
#83. Lightning struck, the sky roared, and the night cried a giant's tears, thunderous and inconsolable.
Vaddey Ratner
#84. In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
Brett Ratner
#85. Once I believed I would live forever. Death never entered my mind. Then one day, death surprised me!
Vaddey Ratner
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
Brett Ratner
#89. I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.
Brett Ratner
#90. Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
Brett Ratner
#91. It's a gift to be able to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it.
Vaddey Ratner
#92. I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
Brett Ratner
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