Brett Quotes

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

I'm definitely not a nerd.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.

I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

I have a dream: That everyone may experience a heaven on earth by their own whim.

(Kaylee) Tell me I'm pretty, Wash.(Wash) Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.(kaylee) Because I'm pretty?(Wash) Because you're pretty.