Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

I make movies based on gut.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That's a trademark that I don't think any producer would turn down.

I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.

Сollege is the best days of your life. You know, I hate to say that 'cause you're so young and you got plenty ahead of you. But it college is just wonderful. You know, you certainly have some responsibility. You’ve got to show up for class and you have to make your grades, but it's a great time and I hope you enjoy those days, 'cause they're the best.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

I only make movies I want to go see.

Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.

It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.

A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

People want to leave their homes but they can't go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps them to alleviate some of the pain that's going on in their life.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.