Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes (42 Quotes)

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

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

We don't live our lives the same way we don't look at things the same way. We've changed the way we travel we've changed just about everything.

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

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

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

They know what the company does. They know what a good idea for a movie or a show is. And they understand the kinds of things that we do.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

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

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

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

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

We love process. We love going inside - to see how something works.

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

I think all of us like to do things to the best of our ability and it has nothing to do with competition factor, it has to do with quality.

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.

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

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

You want to show the African-American kids the sacrifices that Don Haskins made, the seven players who played made, so they can play a sport they love in vast numbers.

I make movies based on gut.

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

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

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.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

Look, I've made enough money that I never have to do another show, but I love what I do, and I'll keep doing it as long as I enjoy it.

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

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

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

I only make movies I want to go see.

Video is another way of seeing movies.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

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 like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

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

There is so much quality in the production and the writing that goes into these shows today, that artists want to be a part of it.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

If you had told me six years ago I would have the biggest show on television I would have said you're out of your mind.

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

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.

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

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.