Brett Ratner Quotes

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and tell me a story, and the way they choose it and tell it, for me, the best criteria for whether they are right for making films. There's nothing more important than being able to tell your story orally.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

I love directing. I love creating things that I don't necessarily even have to be in. I like creating worlds. So I'm getting into writing movies and selling movies and television shows and creating worlds that then get to live beyond me.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.