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 Copy Share Image
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… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business. — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is just beyond. He's at a whole other level, spiritually. He's got the God spot. Everyone has it, everyone has that God spot, but it's just the way he's in tune with it. He has it. It's right there,… — Brett Ratner Copy Share
You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my… — Brett Ratner Copy Share
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one. — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert. — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
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… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
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… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
