Moviemaker Brett Ratner had to cast his mother as a weed-buying "white ho" in a Redman video at the start of his career - because he couldn't call on any actresses to drive to the Harlem, New York shoot at 4am.
"When I want to get really sexy with a girl and I want to sing to the girl, because I'm not really much of a singer, but I know the words backwards and forwards, I put on the Commodores' Just to Be Close to You, but the extended version, because Lionel Richie is talking for about three minutes before the actual song starts. It is, to me, one of the coolest, and at the same time romantic, records ever." Moviemaker Brett Ratner knows how to woo a woman with music.