Brett Ratner Quotes

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

Maybe I'm too selfish to just be a producer. Also, I feel like I have something to say that's interesting or unique.

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must Have.' Why must you have them? They're a 'must' for some people, but for some they're not. It's silly. Again, it's all a matter of knowing who you are. You'll never run out of ideas once you do. But it's hard work and some people don't want to put in the time or effort. So they don't. And that's their issue. I don't sit in judgment on how they look.

When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I've never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Know your personal style.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

My films, no one else will do.

One creates oneself.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.