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.
Brett RatnerI 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. Iโm really just making the films I want to see. Thereโs not a strategy.
Brett RatnerWhen you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
Brett RatnerI hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
Brett RatnerMy movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.
Brett RatnerWhen critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to 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