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 HowardIt was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .
Ron HowardI think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.
Ron HowardI'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 HowardOf course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to the television like most of the world. Then I stopped thinking about it too much. I was a little disappointed that they weren't going on to Mars at the time, but I didn't think much of it. I was more interested in becoming a director at that point in my life and falling in love, things like that.
Ron Howard