Brett Ratner
Born: March 28, 1969 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
[on recasting the role of Jack Crawford with Harvey Keitel in Red Dragon (2002)] When Jonathan Demme said make your own version, I couldn’t see anyone but Anthony Hopkins and I couldn’t see anyone but Anthony Heald as Dr. Chilton. I can’t see another acting doing it. But what happened was I went down to the FBI, and discovered they’re like tough New York Cops. They weren’t like Scott Glenn.
No matter how successful you are, you are not invincible. The studio is writing the checks. It’s all about leverage and who has the power. The goal is to get the biggest deal you can, because you are going to have to give something back to the studios anyway.
Am I Orson Welles? Obviously not. But 50 years from now, who knows how, as a person, I’ll have grown…
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