64 Ron Howard Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ron Howard

American Director

Born: Mar 1, 1954

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I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early 'Andy Griffith' episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like 'Mr. Deeds' or a lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life' in tone and presentation. Ron Howard

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Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there. Ron Howard

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One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius. Ron Howard

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Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public. Ron Howard

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I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news. Ron Howard

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I want to work. I'd be unsatisfied if I couldn't be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life. Ron Howard

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My wife and I invest very, very conservatively. Ron Howard

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I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don't really have a performer's personality. Ron Howard

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When you're an actor, you often feel victimized - you see the end result, 'Oh, they didn't use this take; they didn't use that take. How come?' There's no 'How come?' with the director. There's only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that. Ron Howard

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Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie. Ron Howard

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I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved. Ron Howard

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As a director, I've wanted to have adventure in my life, creative adventure. I think it's partly because I grew up, basically from age six to 26, mostly on television series where the producers find something that works and then do it over and over and over again. Ron Howard

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I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It's not always thematic. I wanted to do 'The Grinch' because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was. Ron Howard

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Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well. Ron Howard

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