Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howardis an American film director, a producer, and an actor. Howard is best known for playing two high-profile roles in television sitcoms in his childhood and early adulthood, and for directing a number of successful feature films later in his career...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 March 1954
CityDuncan, OK
CountryUnited States of America
possibility exciting
3-D is a truly exciting possibility.
thinking lust roles
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
sports limits pushing
Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.
littles
You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.
actors done want
I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.
thinking ideas important
I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.
past creative special
I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.
winning losing happens
Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.
character exercise thinking
I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.
jobs acting ifs
If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
self-esteem preparation action
Confidence is preparation in action.
humor tunnels light
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
choices challenges directors
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
dream destiny leader
It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.