Quotes from Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

I make movies based on gut.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.