Ron Howard Quotes

#1. Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

Sally Kirkland

#2. When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European racing culture, and that's part of the fun of the gig. You learn to learn. Your real skill as a director is being a learner and an observer. You're constantly learning another thing in context.

Jon Favreau

#3. Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

Christine Baranski

#4. My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

Jane Lynch

#5. I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

Quentin Tarantino

#6. First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.

Tim Story

#7. I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.

Jennifer Connelly

#8. I was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him.

Josephine De La Baume

#9. If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Tom Hanks

#10. I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

Aaron Paul

#11. I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

Georgina Chapman

#12. Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense.

Various

#13. 3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Ron Howard

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

Ron Howard

#15. Don't compare yourself to others, only to the person you were yesterday.

Karina Halle

#16. 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.

Ron Howard

#17. An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

Tim Ingold

#18. You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

Ron Howard

#19. 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.

Ron Howard

#20. 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.

Ron Howard

#21. No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand. Writing is forever and always a choice - your choice.

Beth Mende Conny

#22. I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

Ron Howard

#23. You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Ron Howard

#24. You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Ron Howard

#26. 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.

Ron Howard

#27. Confidence is preparation in action.

Ron Howard

#28. Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

Ron Howard

#29. From Adam Smith's pin factory to Moore's Law of microchips, the division of labor drives the extension of the market, not the other way around. Supply creates its own demand through the proliferation of goods and services down the curves of learning, entropy, and imagination.

George Gilder

#30. 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.

Ron Howard

#31. I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Ron Howard

#32. I know I'm unpopular.

Ehud Olmert

#33. Since her time in the necromancer's clutches, she was still recovering lost memories from the quicksand of her mind. They'd drop like nuclear bombs, freezing her at the worst time as visuals which should've stayed forever buried bubbled to the surface.

Katherine McIntyre

#34. Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Ron Howard

#35. Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

Richard P. Feynman

#36. 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.

Ron Howard

#37. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Gian Kumar