Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

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

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.

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.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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

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.

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

I make movies based on gut.

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

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

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

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

I only make movies I want to go see.

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

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

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

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

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

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

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

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.

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

A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

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.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.

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

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

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

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.