Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, “Oh, this is a crossover.” First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It’s all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it’s going from cool to uncool. That’s what crossover is.

You can’t reinvent the wheel. You’ve got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there’s the “live show Gods” that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there’s a very commercial film that’s a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.