Tag: 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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Television, particularly as it becomes more and more serialised, comedies no longer have to tie the stories up neatly within 20-plus minutes. ‘Arrested Development’ had evolving storylines, as did both versions of ‘The Office.’ We’re seeing that more and more. That allows it to be really, whatever the tone, almost literary.
Ron Howard
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I’d say that ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ is the most challenging movie I’ve made. It was tough to figure out how to lead this large cast into some very sensitive, intense, emotional scenes.
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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I’m interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.
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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Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.
Ron Howard
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If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I’d choose the directing job.
Ron Howard
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Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.
Ron Howard
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Sometimes there’s something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.
Ron Howard