Tag: Ron Howard
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Early in the second season of ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more ‘like the way a kid would say it.’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.
Ron Howard
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The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we’re going to continue to evolve.
Ron Howard
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I’ve been around a lot of artists who are also good at business, and… one minute they’ll sound like an artist, and the next minute, they’ll sound like the characters in ‘Mad Men.’ Jay-Z’s a very good businessman, and he talks about it and enjoys it, but he doesn’t shift.
Ron Howard
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You can’t expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There’s something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.
Ron Howard
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I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn’t work that way. But I’ve learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There’s a lot of drama there.
Ron Howard
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I really liked the ‘Pitch Black’ DVD, and I liked the commentary.
Ron Howard
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Nina Gold is a fantastic casting director. She’s doing the new ‘Star Wars’ movies, but she also does ‘Game of Thrones’ and many of the Working Title movies, and she did ‘Rush.’
Ron Howard
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There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.
Ron Howard
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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
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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