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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.

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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A psychology degree doesn't get you very far.
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If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
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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.
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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 mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
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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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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
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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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I only make movies I want to go see.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
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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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There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
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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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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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