Brett Ratner Quotes - Page 3

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• I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

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  Book, Kids, Young

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• I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

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  Oscars, Turns

  "Brett Ratner goes for seasoned pros" by Sheigh Crabtree, www.today.com. November 3, 2004.

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• I'm definitely not a nerd.

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  Nerd

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• The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."

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  Running, Giving, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

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  "The iPhone is a toy". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.

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• I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

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  Comedy, Lovers

  "Brett Ratner: Oscar fan who recognizes his outsider status" by Nicole Sperling, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 4, 2011.

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

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  Would Be, Oscars, Deals

  "The GQA: Brett Ratner". Interview with Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Two, Eight, Half

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Movie Love, Directors, Care

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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

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  Hero, Thinking, Guitar

  "Ratner Pitching Guitar Hero Film" by Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. August 29, 2008.

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• 'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

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  Mean, Vacation, Taste Buds

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• I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.

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  People, Want, Talent

  "Exclusive: Rush Hour 3's Brett Ratner And Chris Tucker On Oscars, Democrats, And Critics". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 7, 2007.

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

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  Four, Hours, Theater

  "Brett Ratner Talks Eddie Murphy, the Oscars, a Woody Allen Documentary, BEVERLY HILLS COP 4, Tarsem’s SNOW WHITE, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 24, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Nice, Winning, Awards

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• Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.

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  People, Laughing, Together

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Stars, Thinking, America

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Jumping, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  New York, Love You, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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