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I only make movies I want to go see.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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Jerry Bruckheimer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 21
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Producer
Detroit
Michigan
Jerome Leon Bruckheimer
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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.
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I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.
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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.
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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
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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.
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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.
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The whole world has changed after September 11th.
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I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.
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But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
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I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.
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Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
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Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.
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I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.
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I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
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Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.
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If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.
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And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.
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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.
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A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.
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Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.
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