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

- Ron Howard

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

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 dispo…

- Ron Howard

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

- Ron Howard

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

- Ron Howard

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…

- Ron Howard

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…

- Ron Howard

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…

- Ron Howard

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