Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

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

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

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

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

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.

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to ... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.

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

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

A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.

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.

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

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

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.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

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.

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.

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

I only make movies I want to go see.

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.

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.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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

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

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.

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

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

I make movies based on gut.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think the best thing you can do when you go and see a movie is to bring somebody along who really enjoys the film with you. I think this is one of those movies ... it wouldn't be their first choice. But once they're in there and they see the enjoyment that not only they're getting, but also their wife or their girlfriend then it makes for a much more pleasant evening after the movie!

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

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.