Brett Ratner Quotes

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

It's great being a producer! Why am I wasting my career writing and directing? Those are actual jobs in which you work. Being a producer, it's kind of like you just go to the set, yell at a couple of people, and then stay up all night dancing in nightclubs.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I think the toughest thing is to describe what a producer does because they basically do everything. They follow a project from the start through the rest of its life and, along the way, are a part of every single aspect of its growth. It's tremendously enriching, though, because you get to know and live with the movie in its entirety.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.

I want to be an executive producer.