Brett Ratner

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.”

“'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.”

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

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

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

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

“I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.”

“I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.”

“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.”

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