1- “People want to leave their homes but they can’t go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps them to alleviate some of the pain that’s going on in their life.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
2- “Well, I don’t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
3- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
4- “Because you can’t do anything halfway, you’ve got to go all the way in anything you do.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
5- “I think it’s the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it’s coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
6- “If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
7- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
8- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
9- “But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there’s corrections you have to make.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
10- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
11- “I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
12- “A lot of it had to do with when it’s released and what’s out in the marketplace, what’s its competition.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
13- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
14- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
15- “We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
16- “There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
17- “The whole world has changed after September 11th.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
18- “It’s very difficult to release an X-rated movie.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
19- “We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
20- “I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
21- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
22- “I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
23- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
24- “I just don’t know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don’t.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
25- “If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
26- “I don’t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
27- “You can’t be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
28- “Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
29- “When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
30- “I only make movies I want to go see.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
31- “If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it’s not on the page, it’s not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
32- “We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
33- “I love taking you inside a world that you’re not apart of and showing how actually works.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
34- “A psychology degree doesn’t get you very far.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
35- “Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
36- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
37- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
38- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
39- “I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you’ve got a real problem.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
40- “I make movies based on gut.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
41- “We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
42- “Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
43- “I think you’ve got to be honest with yourself at what you’re good at. That’s the hardest thing to do.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
44- “Yeah sure, I’d love to have all my movies on DVD.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
45- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
46- “Sometimes we’ll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
47- “You’ve got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
48- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
49- “It’s important to stand up for your work – otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
50- “I think I’m a great organizer. Not that I’m organized, but I’m a great organizer of other people.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
51- “Anybody who’s really successful has doubts.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
52- “What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
53- “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.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
54- “Definitely, it’s a fear of failure that drives me.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
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