Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

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

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

Video is another way of seeing movies.

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

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

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

Top Gun is no different from Pirates of the Caribbean - in fact they`re very similar because both movies were working in genres that were dead. Fighter pilot movies had all failed and pirate movies had been dead for a long time. We approached them from a different angle.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

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.

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

I only make movies I want to go see.

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.

I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

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

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

I don`t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

If I made films for the critics, or for someone else, I`d probably be living in some small Hollywood studio apartment.

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

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

I make movies based on gut.

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

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

Well, I don`t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

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

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

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.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

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

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.

I think that there`s a certain synchronicity, so far, with what I like and with what the audiences like. But I don`t make the movies for them. I make them because I wanna go see them myself.

I just don`t know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don`t.

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