Brett Ratner on using the f-word – “It was indefensible”

In a new profile piece for The Hollywood Reporter, Brett Ratner admits to his most famous (or infamous) comment that injured his career in a big way:

His dumbest remark, he admits, was his comment about “fags,” which cost him the Oscar gig. (He since has given $1 million to the Academy museum.) “It’s indefensible,” he says now. “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.”