It’s indefensible. I immediately apologized. I couldn’t say to everybody, ‘Wait a second, I’m not who you say I am. I’m the guy who did all the PSAs before I was even asked.’ It was just a stupid thing.”
— Director Brett Ratner, disussing the fallout from making comments about “fags” during a public Q&A in 2011 which eventually cost him a job producing the Academy Awards, in a new profile in The Hollywood Reporter