Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratneris an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, and music video director. He is known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break, as well as the comedy Horrible Bosses and its 2014 sequel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 March 1969
CityMiami Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.
I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.
I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula.
'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.
I would love a robot butler.
I want to print books by people in the film industry.
You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
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.