112 Quotes by Brett Ratner

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry – BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

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’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 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.

I don’t have any regrets.

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.

I’d want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.

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.

In my public life, I’m just a guy who enjoys having fun.