Quotes from Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

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 want to print books by people in the film industry.

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

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.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

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

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 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.

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.

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

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.

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.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

I would love a robot butler.

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.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

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

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

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

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