Ron Howard Quotes

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Ron Howard

Profession : Director

Birth : March 1, 1954

My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White.' My mother was married in Cinderella's costume; the dwarves were the best men.

Ron Howard

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

Ron Howard

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

Ron Howard

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

Ron Howard

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one.

Ron Howard

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.

Ron Howard

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

Ron Howard

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Ron Howard

Can you imagine the first time they figured out how to mechanically raise somebody up through the stage and make them appear, or drop them down on a rope or a wire? It blew everybody's minds, I'm sure.

Ron Howard

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

Ron Howard

We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

Ron Howard

In the research I did for 'Apollo,' there was never a moment's hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I'm very proud of that aspect of our culture.

Ron Howard

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that I could have had at an early age.

Ron Howard

I've been around the 'Star Wars' universe from the beginning.

Ron Howard

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

I have the career that I want.

Ron Howard

My brother's a blast to direct; he's one of those great characters who brings so much to every scene he's in, and we're pals.

Ron Howard

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Ron Howard

3-D is a truly exciting possibility. Whether that's going to be something that sustains our interest, I'm not certain, but I think it will.

Ron Howard

I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people's imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.

Ron Howard