A biography for Brett Ratnerhasn’t been written yet.
“Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.”
“I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.”
“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.”
“I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.”
“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.”
“In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.”
“I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.”
“I don't have any regrets.”
“You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm definitely not a nerd.”
“I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.”
“Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.”
“I would love a robot butler.”
“I'm constantly being visually stimulated.”
“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.'”
“I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.”
“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.”
“In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”