Director Brett Ratner, who’s currently making a film about Hugh Hefner’s life, when asked if he’d cast Lindsay Lohan: “She’s very talented; she’d be great a as a Playboy bunny, if she stayed sober.”

Brett and Lindsay dated briefly in 2006, when Lindsay was 20 and Brett was 37.

Director Brett Ratner, when asked what advice he’d give to Britney Spears: “I wouldn’t. I don’t want to be quoted about Britney.”

Oh, silly Brett. Everyone has to get quoted about Britney this month. It’s a union requirement. Didn’t you get the memo? Or did someone forget to mail it in the vagina of an 18-year-old girl?

From Page Six:

DIRECTOR Brett Ratner based a scene in “Rush Hour 3″ on a sexual encounter he had with a transvestite. Asked by The Advocate about the sequence “when the girl takes off her wig and Chris Tucker becomes angry and accuses her of being a man,” Ratner responded, “That’s from my personal experience. My first [oral sex] was from a man, but I didn’t know it was a man . . . I’m not homophobic or uptight about it. That happens to a lot of heterosexuals. You meet a girl in a bar, and it turns out she’s not a girl.”

I think this has happened to a lot of guys, but most of them aren’t talking about it in interviews. He probably figured it would be no big deal running in The Advocate, but thankfully Page Six picked it up, so everyone can read about it.